Comanches, Captives, and Germans: Wilhelm Friedrich's Drawings from the Texas Frontier

by Christopher J. Wickham, Bryden E. Moon, C. B. "Hoppy" Hopkins, et al.

Around 1848 Wilhelm Friedrich, a young German immigrant to Texas, completed three drawings that capture unique details of life on the frontier. Friedrich's sketches feature Comanches, Germans, a captive girl, a wagon train, the landscape and wildlife of the Texas Hill Country, and dynamic scenes of cultural contact. Friedrich is the only artist known to have produced contemporaneous images of a Comanche captive while still in captivity. The authors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1649670133
• ISBN13: 9781649670137
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: State House Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"