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being an interesting narrative of life among the Apache and Mohave Indians. Containing an interesting account of the massacre of the Oatman family, by the Apache Indians, in 1851; the narrow escape of Lorenzo D. Oatman; the capture of Olive A. and Mary A. Oatman ... as given by Lorenzo D. and Olive A. Oatman .. (1858)

A True Narrative of the Capture of the Rev. O. M. Spencer by the Indians, in the Neighbourhood [sic] of Cincinnati. Written by himself.

containing also: an interesting account of the massacre of the Oatman family, by the Apache Indians in 1851; the narrow escape of Lorenzo D. Oatman; the capture of Olive A. and Mary A. Oatman; the death by starvation of the latter; the five years' suffering and captivity of Olive A. Oatman; also, her singular recapture in 1856; as given by Lorenzo D. & Olive A. Oatman, the only surviving members of the family, to the author, R.B. Stratton.

who was stolen from his home in Jackson, Michigan, by the Indians, August 3d, 1837, and his safe return from captivity, October 19, 1866, after an absence of 29 years

who was nine months a prisoner by the Indians on the plains of Michigan. Middlebury, Vt., 1817

who was taken prisoner by the Indians at the destruction of Lancaster in 1675. To which is appended a century sermon, preached at the first parish in Lancaster, May 28, 1753, by Timothy Harrington. A reprint from an old edition.

Two respectable young women (sisters) of the ages of 16 and 18, who were taken prisoners by the savages, at a frontier settlement near Indian Creek, in May last

The Narrative of Nelson Lee, the Texas Ranger