How Stolen Children Actually Came Home From the Comanches

Between 1836 and 1875, hundreds of children were taken from settlements on the southern plains, and a great many of them came home. But almost none of them were rescued by soldiers riding into a camp. This is the story of how they actually got back, through traders, ransoms, hostages, and a handful of people willing to ride where the army couldn’t, and why some children never came home at all.