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"A masterpiece of women’s frontier experience!" —KATHY SCHULZ, author of The Underground Railroad in Ohio

"This is an amazing book, and I couldn’t stop reading it." —JOAN SILBER, PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Secrets of Happiness and Improvement

"An awesome account of female survival at a horrific time." —BOOKLIST

A most unusual portrait of early America based on a rare family document, in which a young mother’s years in captivity with the Shawnee prove to be the best years of her life.

It''s 1779 and a young white woman named Margaret Erskine is venturing west from Virginia, on horseback, with her baby daughter and the rest of her family. She has no experience of Indians, and has absorbed most of the prejudices of her time, but she is open-minded, hardy, and men

Taken by the Shawnee

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      Publisher: Turtle Point Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/25/2024
      ISBN13: 9781885983367, 978-1885983367
      ISBN10: 1885983360

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      "A masterpiece of women’s frontier experience!" —KATHY SCHULZ, author of The Underground Railroad in Ohio

      "This is an amazing book, and I couldn’t stop reading it." —JOAN SILBER, PEN/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Secrets of Happiness and Improvement

      "An awesome account of female survival at a horrific time." —BOOKLIST

      A most unusual portrait of early America based on a rare family document, in which a young mother’s years in captivity with the Shawnee prove to be the best years of her life.

      It''s 1779 and a young white woman named Margaret Erskine is venturing west from Virginia, on horseback, with her baby daughter and the rest of her family. She has no experience of Indians, and has absorbed most of the prejudices of her time, but she is open-minded, hardy, and men

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