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My Captivity Among the Sioux (Paperback, New ed)
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My Captivity Among the Sioux (Paperback, New ed)
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List price R488
Loot Price R442
Discovery Miles 4 420
You Save R46 (9%)
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Travelling to Idaho with an emigrant train from her home in Kansas,
the nineteen-year-old Mrs. Kelly was captured west of Fort Laramie
by a band of Oglalla Sioux on July 12, 1864, and held prisoner
until December 12 of that year, when she was released at Fort Sully
in the Dakota Territory... Her book is clearly one of the most
distinguished examples of the last period of the captivity
narrative... Fanny Kelly's narrative is valuable not only because
it is an intrinsically exciting firsthand account, rich in details
of Indian life, told by a brave and intelligent woman; it is
especially valuable because it expresses the tension between two
conflicting nineteenth-century images: the Indian as savage
aggressor and the Indian as hapless victim-- a tension which
illustrate the uneasy mingling of hostility and guilt central to
the whole American Frontier experience. --From the introduction by
Jules Zanger, Southern Illinois University
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