Frances Slocum the Lost Sister of Wyoming - The Story of a Quaker Girl's Abduction and Life Among the Miami Indians (Hardcover)

Life among the Indians
Young Frances Slocum was one of a family of peaceful Quakers from the Wyoming Valley, but latterly living in Lenape, Pennsylvania when, in 1778, aged just five years old, she was abducted by a raiding party of Miami Indians and carried away into captivity. She became Maconaquah-the Little Bear-and she was destined to spend the rest of her life living as an Indian. It was nearly sixty years before her brothers finally located her on an Indian Reservation near Peru, Indiana and by that time she had been so totally integrated into tribal life, including having been married twice giving birth to four children, that a return to life as a 'white' American woman was impossible; she lived out her life in Indiana dying at the age of 75 years. The fascinating story of 'the lost sister' is another iconic tale of the struggles of women in the emergent American nation and makes riveting reading. Available in softcover and hardcover with dustjacket.

General

Imprint:	Leonaur Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2011
First published:	March 2011
Authors:	John Franklin Meginness
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-0-85706-537-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General
LSN:	0-85706-537-8
Barcode:	9780857065377

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