A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830-1885Caxton Press, 2007 - 544 Seiten Captivity narratives have been a standard genre of writings about Indians of the East for several centuries.a Until now, the West has been almost entirely neglected.a Now Gregory and Susan Michno have rectified that with this painstakenly researched collection of vivid and often brutal accounts of what happened to those men and women and children that were captured by marauding Indians during the settlement of the West." |
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Republican Texas | 45 |
Warren Lyons capture site near Schulenburg Texas Davis Cemetery Leander Texas | 49 |
Wagon Trains Emigrants and Travelers | 87 |
Whitman Massacre site near Walla Walla Washington | 101 |
Madera Canyon Arizona Page Quiroz capture site Flat where UtterVan Ornum train was first attacked Hillside where Van Ornum children were captu... | 119 |
Taylor McDonald capture site near Harper Texas Eubanks Ranch site near Oak Nebraska | 135 |
Eastlick cabin site Lake Shetek Minnesota | 231 |
Civil War Years | 253 |
Mt Nebo south of Weatherford Texas | 255 |
The Central Plains | 295 |
Oak Grove Ranch on the Little Blue River Nebraska | 299 |
Veronica Ulbrich Marker at site of Sarah Whites capture | 309 |
Reconstruction Texas | 339 |
Site of capture of Eliza and Isaac Briscoe near Agnes Texas | 351 |
Plum Creek Massacre site Nebraska | 137 |
Amanda and Elizabeth Fletcher capture site | 145 |
Clara Blinn | 152 |
German Family capture site near Russell Springs Kansas | 159 |
PreCivil War Texas | 171 |
The Minnesota Uprising | 189 |
Abbie Gardner cabin Spirit Lake Iowa | 191 |
Mary Schwandt 1862 | 198 |
Helen Carrothers Urania White Amanda Earle 1862 | 205 |
Sarah James and Lucy Wakefield 1862 | 212 |
Wakefield house site Upper Sioux Agency Minnesota | 213 |
Jannette De Camp 1862 | 218 |
John Schmerch The Ingalls James Scott 1862 | 226 |
Babb Luster capture site near Chico Texas | 357 |
Willa Walla Valley Texas | 381 |
Legion Valley Texas near Friend Caudle capture site | 387 |
The Last Captives | 407 |
Near Meeker capture site Colorado | 443 |
Conclusion | 457 |
The Authors | 458 |
Texas Hill Country capture locations | 479 |
Captivity lengths 18301889 | 482 |
Captives at Whitman Mission | 490 |
The Authors | 508 |
MinnesotaIowa capture locations | 529 |
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A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830-1885 Gregory Michno,Susan Michno Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2007 |
A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830-1885 Gregory Michno,Susan Michno Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2007 |
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Seite 34 - This woman has adopted all the habits and peculiarities of the Comanches ; has an Indian husband and children, and cannot be persuaded to leave them. The brother of the woman, who had been ransomed by a trader and brought home to his relatives, was sent back by his mother for the purpose of endeavoring to prevail upon his sister to leave the Indians and return to her family ; but he stated to me that on his arrival she refused to listen to the proposition, saying that her husband, children, and all...
Seite 5 - The little boy of whom I have spoken, was brought in the whole distance to Fort Gibson, in the arms of the dragoons, who took turns in carrying him ; and after the command arrived there, he was transmitted to the Red River, by an officer, who had the enviable satisfaction of delivering him into the arms of his disconsolate and half-distracted mother.
Seite 26 - To undertake to narrate their barbarous treatment would only add to my present distress, for it is with feelings of the deepest mortification that I think of it, much less to speak or write of it; for while I record this painful part of my narrative; I can almost feel the same heart-rending pains of body and mind that I then endured, my very soul becomes sick at the dreadful thought.