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4.0
This book is split into two different parts. The first half is about the father (James W Parker) looking for his daughter who was kidnapped after a Comanche raid on their Texas fort. The second half is about a woman (Rachel Plummer) and her 21 months spent with the Comanches after being kidnapped from that raid. Both first hand accounts.
This was really a tale of two books. James W Parker's account was interesting, but pales in comparison to Rachel Plummer's account of her time with the Comanche tribe. Her account was short, but fantastic. Detailing parts of life with the Comanche, a section on all the animals (which was oddly fascinating), her troubles with some of the Comanche woman, and many horrific hardships by the Comache men and her two different children (one that was kidnapped and one she had while a prisoner of the tribe.
By far the most FANTASTIC part of the book was the faith Rachel Plummer had and continued to have while a captive. After one very traumatic event she writes:
"Will this scene ever be effaced from my memory? Not until my Spirit is called to leave this tenement of clay; and may God grant me a heart to pray for them, for "they know not what they do"
and another instant after her young infant is tied to a horse and rode through cactus until it was "not only dead, but literally torn to pieces", as she buries her baby and stands over his grave, she writes:
"and I could, with old David, say, 'You cannot come to me, but I must go to you;' and then, and even now, whilst I record the awful tragedy, I rejoice that it has passed from the sufferings and sorrows of this world."
Really great book.
This was really a tale of two books. James W Parker's account was interesting, but pales in comparison to Rachel Plummer's account of her time with the Comanche tribe. Her account was short, but fantastic. Detailing parts of life with the Comanche, a section on all the animals (which was oddly fascinating), her troubles with some of the Comanche woman, and many horrific hardships by the Comache men and her two different children (one that was kidnapped and one she had while a prisoner of the tribe.
By far the most FANTASTIC part of the book was the faith Rachel Plummer had and continued to have while a captive. After one very traumatic event she writes:
"Will this scene ever be effaced from my memory? Not until my Spirit is called to leave this tenement of clay; and may God grant me a heart to pray for them, for "they know not what they do"
and another instant after her young infant is tied to a horse and rode through cactus until it was "not only dead, but literally torn to pieces", as she buries her baby and stands over his grave, she writes:
"and I could, with old David, say, 'You cannot come to me, but I must go to you;' and then, and even now, whilst I record the awful tragedy, I rejoice that it has passed from the sufferings and sorrows of this world."
Really great book.
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