The true story of an 11 year old boy is captured by Apache Warriors and becomes one of them on his path to survival.

An excerpt from the introduction of Lehmann’s book, Nine Years Among the Indians, will tell the story just as well as I can. “He was captured by a band of Apache Indians when he was about eleven years old, and lived with this tribe for four years; later he became involved in difficulties with members of the tribe and was forced to flee for his life. He went out into the wilderness, where alone in the mountains he remained for about a year, and later he went to the Comanches, into which tribe he was adopted, and he remained with them until he was finally restored to his people,”