Description:
A sensational bestseller when first published in 1857, Captivity of the Oatman Girls is the story of the nine members of the Oatman family who set out for California on the old Santa Fe Trail in 1851 and were attacked by Indians who killed most of the family, mistakenly left one boy for dead, and took two girls as captives. This Bison Books edition includes the entirety of the enlarged edition and a new foreword.
