This riveting true-life story recounts the capture of a pair of Mormon sisters after Indians attacked their covered wagon and massacred their family in 1851. It relates their harsh life as slaves among the Apache and Mohave tribes and the miraculous search and rescue conducted by their surviving brot... read more
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This riveting true-life story recounts the capture of a pair of Mormon sisters after Indians attacked their covered wagon and massacred their family in 1851. It relates their harsh life as slaves among the Apache and Mohave tribes and the miraculous search and rescue conducted by their surviving brother.
Reprint of Life Among the Indians, or: The Captivity of the Oatman Girls among the Apache and Mohave Indians, Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1935.
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