A sensational bestseller when first published in 1857, Captivity of the Oatman Girls is the story of the nine members of the Oatman family who set out for California on the old Santa Fe Trail in 1851 and were attacked by Indians who killed most of the family, mistakenly left one boy for dead, and took two girls as captives. This Bison Books edition includes the entirety of the enlarged edition and a new foreword.
A sensational bestseller when first published in 1857, Captivity of the Oatman Girls is the story of the nine members of the Oatman family who set out for California on the old Santa Fe Trail in 1851 and were attacked by Indians who killed most of the family, mistakenly left one boy for dead, and took two girls as captives. This Bison Books edition includes the entirety of the enlarged edition and a new foreword. Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
R. B. Stratton (1827–1875) was a Methodist reverend. He lectured in California for eleven years before publishing his best-selling story of the Oatman girls in 1857. Wilcomb E. Washburn (1925–1997) was former director of the Smithsonian Institution’s American Studies Program. Billy J. Stratton is an associate professor of English at the University of Denver and is not related to R. B. Stratton. He is the author of Buried in Shades of Night: Contested Voices, Indian Captivity, and the Legacy of King Philip’s War and editor of The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones: A Critical Companion.
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Foreword by Wilcomb Washburn Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the Third Edition Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII
Foreword by Wilcomb Washburn Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the Third Edition Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII
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