Horace Kephart gathers first-hand accounts of captivity on the colonial and early American frontier: James Smith’s life among the Delawares from 1755 to 1759, the Jesuit Francesco Bressani’s ordeal among the Iroquois, and Massy Harbison’s capture and escape in 1792. The accounts record adoption, gauntlets, torture and escape in plain detail.
Harrowing primary sources for frontier history, told from the captives’ side. Download the free EPUB.