An amazing account of the survival of an American lady among hostile Indians
This is a remarkable story of one woman's ordeal and a testament of extraordinary feminine endurance. Mrs Kelly was one of a small party of emigrants who were attacked by a large force of Sioux warriors during which a large proportion of the party were killed. Travelling with her husband close to the Black Hills when the attack occurred, Fanny's husband miraculously effected his escape agonised by the knowledge that his wife and child were, at best, prisoners. Fanny Kelly's captivity lasted for five months. This is her account of that time and of her husbands efforts, in concert with the Iowa Cavalry, to rescue her. A fitting addition to the Leonaur 'Women in Conflict' series available in softcover and hardcover with dust jacket for collectors.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1873 Edition.

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With A Brief Account Of General Sully's Indian Expedition In 1864, Bearing Upon Events Occurring In My Captivity.

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With A Brief Account Of General Sully's Indian Expedition In 1864, Bearing Upon Events Occurring In My Captivity.

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With A Brief Account Of General Sully's Indian Expedition In 1864, Bearing Upon Events Occurring In My Captivity.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

"A Pioneer Woman's Harrowing story of Frontier Experiences during the Opening of the West - Contents Include: Early History - The Attack and the Capture - My Husband's Escape - Beginning of my Captivity - Plan for Little Mary's Escape - Suffering from Thirst and Weariness - Powder River - The storm - Preparations for Battle - Mourning for the Slain - Meet another White Female Captive - Despair and Delirium - A Letter from Captain Marshall - Lost in the Indian Village - Fourteen Whites Killed - Scenes on Cannon Ball Prairie - A Prairie on Fire - Negotiations for my Ransom - Indian Customs - An Indian Tradition - I am Free - Retrospection - Sad Fate of Little Mary - Reward Offered - Mother and Child - A Brutal Father - I Go to Washington - General Sully's Expedition - Poem to Mrs. Fannie Kelly - Certificate of Indian Chiefs - Certified Copies of my Correspondence with Captain Fisk - Statement of Lieutenant G.A. Hesselberg - Statements of Officers and Members of the Sixth Iowa Cavalry"

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