Captivity of the Oatman Girls; Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. Lorenzo Oatman -- Conscious of most of the Scenes of the Massacre -- The next Day he finds himself at the Foot of a rocky Declivity, over which he had fallen -- Makes an Effort to walk -- Starts for Pimole -- His Feelings and Sufferings -- Is attacked by Wolves--Then by two Indians, who are about to shoot him down -- Their subsequent Kindness-- They go on to the Place of Massacre -- He meets the Wilders and Kellys -- They take him back to Pimole -- In about one Month gets well, and starts for Fort Yuma--Visits the Place of Massacre--His Feelings--Burial of the Dead--Reflections -- The two Girls--Their Thoughts of Home and Friends -- Conduct of their Captors--Disposition of the Stock -- Cruelty to the Girls to hurry them on--Girls resolve not to proceed -- Meet eleven Indians, who seek to kill Olive -- Keasons for -- Apaches defend her -- Their Habits of Fear for their own Safety--Their Reception at the Apache Village -- One Year--The Mohaves-- Their second coming among the Apaches -- Conversation of Olive and Mary--. Purchased by the Mohaves -- Avowed Reasons--Their Price -- Danger during the Debate. In this chapter we ask the reader to trace with us the narrow and miraculous escape of Lorenzo Oatman, after being left for dead by the Apaches. He was the first to repeiye the death-dealing blow of the perpetra tors of that horrid deed by which most of the family were taken from him. The last mention we made of him left him, under the effects, of that blow, weltering in his blood. He shall tell his own story of the dreadful after-part. It has in it a candor, a freedom from the tinselings so qften. borrowed from a morbid imagination, and thrown about artificial romance, that commends it to the reader, especially to the juvenile...