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Howling Wilderness - The Indian Captivity of Ollie Spencer (Hardcover)
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Howling Wilderness - The Indian Captivity of Ollie Spencer (Hardcover)
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Colonel Oliver Spencer was a Revolutionary War hero forced by
post-war poverty to homestead in the "far West," in the Ohio
Valley. This was a dangerous proposition, since Native Americans
were numerous and still in possession of the land. In this true
story, the American government tried several times to wrest the
land in Ohio from the Indians, but the natives spectacularly
defeated the first of the military expeditions sent against them.
Then Wapawaqua, an Iroquois living with Shawnee Indians, kidnapped
the Colonel's son, ten-year-old Ollie Spencer, as the boy returned
home from a Fourth of July celebration at Fort Washington in
Cincinnati in 1792. This begins the boy's journey to becoming
Indian while living with an Iroquois medicine woman and
spiritualist, before his eventual rescue through diplomatic means
with the aid of President Washington. Even then, the boy's
adventure was not over as he began a circuitous and dangerous
journey home. Finally, we learn how Ollie and his captors spent the
rest of their lives, with the natives eventually fighting on the
American side in the War of 1812 and their journey to a reservation
in Kansas.
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