She Came Home Without Her Son - He Came Back Six Years Later

In February 1838, nineteen-year-old Rachel Plummer came home after twenty-one months as a Comanche captive, and the first thing everyone asked her was the one thing she couldn’t answer: where was her little son? She sat down and wrote one of the earliest captivity accounts ever published in Texas. By the time her son finally came home, she had been in her grave for three years.