Assignment task: The topic of the paper is based on the required reading/book titled "The Captured: A True Story of Abduction on the Texas Frontier" by Scott Zesch. Author Scott Zesch uses the story of Indian captives to open a window into the experiences of Texas pioneers. The stories of Adolf Korn and the others who were taken as captives within a larger historical context. What do their experiences tell us about Native American culture? What do they tell us about pioneer culture? Why did the Comanches take captives? Assess how the stories of the captives and their captors fit into larger patterns in the history of the United States West. "Why did some bands within the Comanche Empire resort to kidnapping European kids during the late 1840s in Texas?" or "How challenging was the borderland experience of the early Polish migrants in the Dakota territory during the 1880s?" the theme of US borderlands, frontier violence, the Texas frontier, the Comanche Empire, immigrants, captives, What is probably the best way to construct your own avenue of research for this project is to pick one: e.g., "frontier violence," "Comanche relations," "Immigrant experiences in the West," etc. A good question, which could also be the title of your short paper, is: "Why did Comanches kidnap white children in New Mexico (or Texas) during the 1840-1850 decade? This simple arrangement provides you with enough keywords to search for sourcing in JSTOR. "Comanche Empire," "Arizona frontier violence," "Comanche kidnappings," "Arizona frontier 1840s," etc.