I've also found it being used in a study of anxiety in youths. I've found it used to discuss acquisitions strategies in business journals. I've been looking around the internet this morning to see how the story is used. He's having a great time and doesn't want to go home. He utters war whoops, and tries to scalp one of his captors. ' 'Ha! cursed paleface, do you dare to enter the camp of Red Chief, the terror of the plains?''

He's put feathers in his hair, holds a stick and calls out to one of the kidnappers: The story has 'Red Chief' in the title because that's what Johnny calls himself once settled in the cave where the kidnappers hole up. The kidnappers, instead of gaining $2000, lose $250. His dad, knowing the kidnappers are discovering they've got more than they bargained for, says he'll take the boy back if the kidnappers will pay him to do so. He's such a troublemaker that the neighbors are glad he's gone. Of course, his dad knows this, and everyone else in town does, too. Turns out, though, that the boy is a handful. His kidnappers think his father will pay $2000 to get him back. In the story a ten year old boy named Johnny is kidnapped. Illustration from The Saturday Evening Post, July 6, 1907 The illustration below is from that issue.) (Update on July 17, 2019: The story was first published in 1907 in The Saturday Evening Post. Henry's short story, The Ransom of Red Chief. One of the questions I've received a few times is about O.

The ransom of the red chief story