book chapter

Three years among the Comanches: the narrative of Nelson Lee, the Texas ranger, containing a detailed account of his captivity among the Indians, his singular escape through the instrumentality of his watch, and fully illustrating Indian life as it is on the war path and in the camp.

University of Oklahoma Press • Norman • Published In 1957 • Pages: vii-x, 88-179

By: Lee, Nelson.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

This is the personal narrative of Nelson Lee, an ex-Texas Ranger, who spent three years as a captive of the Comanches in 1855-1858. The book was put into its present form by an unknown editor, since Lee could not write. Much of the book deals with Lee's personal experiences illustrating the Comanche methods of dealing with war captives. Prominent in the account are his impressions of ceremonial, diet, settlement pattern, and methods of settling quarrels. The book is invaluable for its information on how the Comanches lived before they were affected by any large degree of acculturation.

cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

Comanche

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

2019

RegionThe area the document pertains to

North America

Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region

Plains and Plateau

Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs

book chapter

Evaluation

Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.

Traveler

Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.

5: Excellent Primary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1958

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

1855-1858

NotesAdditional notes

Nelson Lee ; with an introduction by Walter Prescott Webb

Only pages vii-x, and 88-179 dealing with Lee's captivity by the Comanches have been processed for the Files

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

57011197

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

Indian captivities

Comanche Indians