Comanche Captives and Germans Gifts by Mark Lambert

by Mark Lambert

He delighted in showing guests the ancestral settlement

Kenneth Hafertepe explores how their material culture was influenced by their European roots

Sophie must find a way to save her family

Through our lives we all lose our smile once in a while

Comanche Captives and Germans Gifts by Mark LambertAround 1848 Wilhelm Friedrich, a young German immigrant to Texas, completed three drawings that capture unique details of life on the frontier. Friedrichs sketches feature Comanches, Germans, a captive girl, a wagon train, the landscape and wildlife of the Texas Hill Country, and dynamic scenes of cultural contact. Friedrich is the only artist known to have produced contemporaneous images of a Comanche captive while still in captivity. The authors use