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Narrative Of My Captivity Among The Sioux Indians

Narrative Of My Captivity Among The Sioux Indians

Kelly, Fanny

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Anthropology19th Century United States HistoryFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 9354505414
ISBN13: 9789354505416
Publisher: Alpha Ed
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the vast silence of the northern plains, a single woman is taken. Nothing about it feels distant. In Narrative Of My Captivity Among The Sioux Indians, Fanny Kelly records a sioux captivity firsthand account with the clarity of lived experience: fear, endurance, and the daily negotiations of staying alive when home is far away. Part captivity narrative memoir, part frontier memoir nonfiction, this pioneer woman survival story stands among the true captivity narrative classics of the American West. Kelly writes as an eyewitness to native american frontier conflict, offering an american history primary source rooted in the 19th century Dakota Territory and the wider great plains frontier history. Her memoir tracks not only danger, but the fragile routines of captivity: language barriers, shifting alliances, and the constant reading of mood and landscape. The result is a tense, intimate forged document of contact and misunderstanding on the borderlands alike. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. Presented as a complete unabridged classic memoir, it belongs on a classic-literature shelf as readily as on a modern womens history reading list. For casual readers, it is immediate and human; for collectors, it is a landmark text often discussed alongside the illustrated western pioneer memoir tradition.

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