White Captives

by Evelyn Sibley Lampman

Book Overview

A fictionalized account of the experiences of two sisters who spent five years as Indian captives in the mid-nineteenth century. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689500238
• ISBN13: 9780689500237
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Captivating Story

White Captives is based on the true-life experiences of Olive Oatman when she and her sister Mary Ann where taken captive by the Tonto Apaches. The book begins with Royce, his wife and their seven children on a wagon train to New Mexico in 1851. Due to quarreling the wagon train divided and eventually the Oatman's wagon was alone on thier journey. One night they where attacked by a band of Tanto Apaches who killed the whole family (with the exception of Lorenzo, thier brother) and took Olive and Mary Ann as captives. They where with the Tontos for a year when they where sold as slaves to the Mohaves. Though slaves Olive and Mary Ann where made members of the tribe. Mary Ann had been growing worse from an ongoing battle with what seemed to be TB, then died during a famine that killed many of the tribe. In 1856 her brother Lorenzo had found Olives where-abouts, through which she was rescued and returned to her own poeple. My sister and I started to read this book together and could barely put it down. You lived right along side of her characters. I love how Lampman gives you a well-rounded story, with the view-point of the indians and of Olive. Giving it a refreshing equilibrium.