Held Captive By Indians

Author : Richard VanDerBeets
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870498404
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Held Captive by Indians written by Richard VanDerBeets and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the early white settlers, accounts of Indian captivities and massacres became America's first literature of catharsis - a means by which a population that disapproved of fiction and play-acting could satisfy its appetite for stories about other people's misfortunes. This collection of unaltered captivity narratives, first published in 1973, remains an invaluable source of information for historians and ethnologists, providing a fascinating glimpse of a vanished era. For this edition, VanDerBeets has written a new preface discussing the proliferation of recent scholarship about captivity narratives, especially those written by women.

Author : Lois Lenski
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453227520
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Captive written by Lois Lenski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Honor book inspired by the true story of a girl captured by a Shawnee war party in Colonial America and traded to a Seneca tribe. When twelve-year-old Mary Jemison and her family are captured by Shawnee raiders, she’s sure they’ll all be killed. Instead, Mary is separated from her siblings and traded to two Seneca sisters, who adopt her and make her one of their own. Mary misses her home, but the tribe is kind to her. She learns to plant crops, make clay pots, and sew moccasins, just as the other members do. Slowly, Mary realizes that the Indians are not the monsters she believed them to be. When Mary is given the chance to return to her world, will she want to leave the tribe that has become her family? This Newbery Honor book is based on the true story of Mary Jemison, the pioneer known as the “White Woman of the Genesee.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Lenski including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Author : Scott Zesch
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429910119
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Captured written by Scott Zesch and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled over his own great-great-great uncle's grave. Determined to understand how such a "good boy" could have become Indianized so completely, Zesch travels across the west, digging through archives, speaking with Comanche elders, and tracking eight other child captives from the region with hauntingly similar experiences. With a historians rigor and a novelists eye, Zesch's The Captured paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier, offering a rare account of captivity. "A carefully written, well-researched contribution to Western history -- and to a promising new genre: the anthropology of the stolen." - Kirkus Reviews

Author : Herman Lehmann
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879 written by Herman Lehmann and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1927 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fanny Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians written by Fanny Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alden T. Vaughan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674044609
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puritans Among the Indians written by Alden T. Vaughan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These eight reports by white settlers held captive by Indians gripped the imagination not only of early settlers but also of American writers through our history. Puritans among the Indians presents, in modern spelling, the best of the New England narratives. These both delineate the social and ideological struggle between the captors and the settlers, and constitute a dramatic rendition of the Puritans' spiritual struggle for redemption.

Author : Horace Kephart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captives Among the Indians written by Horace Kephart and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marilyn Seguin
Publisher : Branden Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780828319522
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Song of Courage, Song of Freedom written by Marilyn Seguin and published by Branden Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the kidnapping, captivity, and return of an Ohio girl by Delaware Indians in the eighteenth century.

Author : Frederick Drimmer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486130738
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captured by the Indians written by Frederick Drimmer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Astounding eyewitness accounts of Indian captivity by people who lived to tell the tale. Fifteen true adventures recount suffering and torture, bloody massacres, relentless pursuits, miraculous escapes, and adoption into Indian tribes.

Author : Hugh D. Corwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258452742
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comanche and Kiowa Captives in Oklahoma and Texas written by Hugh D. Corwin and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: