"A masterpiece of womens frontier experience!" KATHY SCHULZ, author of The Underground Railroad in Ohio"This is an amazingbook, and I couldnt stop reading it." JOAN SILBER, PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Awardwinning author of Secrets of Happiness and Improvement"An awesome account of female survival at a horrific time." BOOKLISTAmost unusual portrait of early America based on a rare family document, in which a young mothers years in captivity with the Shawnee prove to be the best years of her life.Its 1779 and a young white woman named Margaret Erskine is venturing west from Virginia, on horseback, with her baby daughter and the rest of her family. She has no experience of Indians, and has absorbed most of the prejudices of her time, but she is openminded, hardy, and mentally strong, a trait common to most of her female descendantsSallie Binghams ancestors.Bingham had heard Margarets story since she was a child but didnt see the fifteen pages Margaret had dictated to her nephew a generation after her captivity until they turned up in her mothers blue box after her death. Devoid of most details, this restrained account inspired Bingham to research and imagine and fill the gaps in her story and to consider the tough questions it raises. How did Margaret, our narrator, bear witnessing the murder of her infant? How did she survive her near death at the hands of the Shawnee after the murder of the chief? Whose father was her baby Johns, born nine months after...

Binding: Paperback;204 pages; Publisher: Turtle Point Press; Classification: FA; Weight: 448 g; Dimensions: 145 x 209 x 19

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