Augusta had three more daughters, Emeliyn, Caroline Wilhelmina and Mathilde, but their birth order is unclear, as is their patrilineage.
[1] On May 16, 1870, a raiding party of eight to ten Apaches (probably Lipans) captured Herman Lehmann, who was almost eleven, and his eight-year-old brother, Willie, while they were in the fields at their mother's request scaring birds from the wheat.
[2] Four days later, the Apache raiding party encountered a patrol of ten African-American cavalrymen led by Sgt.
[2] A year after his capture, General William T. Sherman passed through Loyal Valley on an inspection tour.
Augusta Lehmann Buchmeier was granted a private audience with Sherman to plead for his assistance in finding her son.
Lehmann then explained his situation—that he was born White adopted by the Indians and that he left the Apaches after killing the medicine man.
She questioned Colonel Mackenzie, the commanding officer of Fort Sill, whether there were any blue eyed boys on the reservation.
Five soldiers and a driver escorted Lehmann on a four-mule-drawn ambulance to Loyal Valley in Mason County, Texas.
Lehmann had long believed his family dead, for the Apache had shown him proof during his time of transition to their way of life.
[11] Herman Lehmann's first memoir, written with the assistance of Jonathan H. Jones, was published in 1899 under the title A Condensed History of the Apache and Comanche Indian Tribes for Amusement and General Knowledge (also known as Indianology).
Lehmann was a very popular figure in southwestern Oklahoma and the Texas Hill Country, appearing at county fairs and rodeos.
Herman Lehmann's story also inspired Mason County native Fred Gipson's novel Savage Sam, a sequel to Old Yeller.
[citation needed] They left Texas and moved back to Indian Territory in 1900 to be close to his Apache and Comanche friends.
On August 26, 1901, Quanah Parker provided a legal affidavit verifying Lehmann's life as his adopted son 1877–1878.