Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians eBook Fanny Kelly
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Fanny Kelly (1845-1904) was a Kansas pioneer woman captured by the Sioux and freed five months later. She later wrote a book about her experiences called Narrative of My Captivity among the Sioux Indians in 1871.
THIS is the title of a very interesting narrative of the capture of Mrs. Fanny Kelly, in 1864, who was en route with her husband and a little adopted daughter with a small band of other emigrants to the Far West. They were surrounded just at nightfall by a troop of Sioux Indians, who at first feigned friendship, but very soon, notwithstanding they were treated with kindness and liberality by the unfortunate party, began a murderous attack, killing several, and taking Fanny, her adopted daughter, and a Mrs. Larimer prisoners. Mrs. Larimer got away the second night, but our authoress remained for five months- the victim of cruelty, exposure, fear, and despair, but having an opportunity to see and know much of Indian life. The work abounds in sketches of scenery, and the wild eventful lifetraits of the Indians of the Northwest.
Fanny was captured from an emigrant train some distance from Fort Laramie on the Platte River, in Wyoming, by a band of Ogallala Sioux Indians. This tribe of Indians were the best fighters of all the Indians. They were of good physique and were rich in horses and traveled very rapidly. At the time of her capture Fanny was but nineteen years of age, and during her career with the Indians she was subjected to more blood-curdling experiences than the ordinary woman could withstand. After carrying her into the Dakotas, the Big Chief spared her life because she showed so much skill in dressing the wounds of their wounded and made herself useful. More severe than the long marches must have been the witnessing of the battles in which her own people were killed, and the fiendish acts of the blood-thirsty warriors.
It was on May 17, 1864, that Josiah S. Kelly, his young wife, and their adopted little daughter, Mary, left their home in Geneva, Kansas, and with other emigrants started for the golden fields of Idaho, with high wrought hopes of future prosperity and pleasant anticipations of a romantic and delightful journey across the plains. They experienced no disturbances from Indians, safely crossed the Platte River, until July 12, 1864, when they came into the Little Box Elder Valley, 12 miles from Deer Creek Station. When suddenly without warning, the bluffs before them were covered with a party of about two hundred Indians. Gaudily painted, uttering their wild war-whoops, firing a volley of guns and revolvers, they descended on the train of emigrants. In the massacre that followed, Josiah succeeded in making a miraculous escape. Favored by the fast approaching darkness, he hid himself in the tall grass and sage brush.
Fanny's narrative covers the succeeding events that led to her eventually being reunited with her husband; Congress later voted to give her $5,000 for her efforts which saved a fort from attack.
Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians eBook Fanny Kelly
As a historian I thought this would be a good book to read which if your studying American Mythology it is. This book takes you on a journey of one unbelievable event after another. I started researching this and found even at the time Fanny Kelly was consider to be full of it. My 3rd great grandfather Joseph R. Lambert was murdered by Major Miles Crow scouts along with his 3rd wife and children in July 20 1879 and this made national news. But the savage attack on her husband party the is nothing that I have been able to find. Books that did well could in this time could care a person for the rest of their lives. So desperate was Fanny to try and sell her deal that she pestered the 1870 Sioux delegation to authenticate her story. Which she needed a interpreter but in her story she is able to understand the heartless savages from day one.Product details
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Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians eBook Fanny Kelly Reviews
Interesting in a historical time period. The book is a picture of a time when white settlement was taken place, changing the way of the native people and their attitude towards them.
It is an excellent book detailing the live of thos who were Indian captives.
Well written which must have been very hard to relive everything again. I felt she was honest in her telling of such a scary and hurtful time of the founding of our western land.
It was great to get a peek into the life, via this narrative, of someone who lived went through this unique experience.
While referring at many times to the Indians as "savages", she nonetheless admired and respected some of them while showing disdain for others. Through her experience I believe we see that we can't paint a people with a broad brush. I think she learned this lesson well.
It was interesting to find out how many whites were held for ransom by the Indians. She devoted a whole chapter to this.
She also related a dispute that she had with another captive. They were going to write a book together but that fell apart when the other captive "stole" the manuscript and told the story as her own.
If you are of a religious persuasion, you may find inspiration in her use of faith to overcome the obstacles put in front of her.
The book is also sprinkled throughout with historical photographs that relate to her story.
Excellent write up in this woman's own words of the way it was. No revisionist history portraying the Indians as "noble savages". Tells it like it was and offers excellent insight into the mindset of the Indians of the period.
I thought this was a well written book telling about her captivity. What she endured and survived was amazing. I think anyone would enjoy reading this book. It shows how there are good people even in places you'd lease expect.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. I had read a similar book previously and enjoyed it as well. Mrs. Kelly was very good author added some 19th century prose and thoughts along with her difficulties and struggles.
As a historian I thought this would be a good book to read which if your studying American Mythology it is. This book takes you on a journey of one unbelievable event after another. I started researching this and found even at the time Fanny Kelly was consider to be full of it. My 3rd great grandfather Joseph R. Lambert was murdered by Major Miles Crow scouts along with his 3rd wife and children in July 20 1879 and this made national news. But the savage attack on her husband party the is nothing that I have been able to find. Books that did well could in this time could care a person for the rest of their lives. So desperate was Fanny to try and sell her deal that she pestered the 1870 Sioux delegation to authenticate her story. Which she needed a interpreter but in her story she is able to understand the heartless savages from day one.
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