15 Theodore A. Babb

In the Bosom of the Comanches: A Thrilling Tale of Savage Indian Life, Massacre and Captivity Truthfully Told by a Surviving Captive. Dallas: Hargreaves, 1912.

"The closing days of the trying Indian struggles upon the frontiers of Texas." Edited by Albert Sidney Stinnett.

16 Samuel L. Metcalf

Collection of Some of the Most Interesting Narratives of Indian Warfare in the West. Lexington, Ky.: William G. Hunt, 1821.

" . . . containing an account of the adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, one of the first settlers of Kentucky, comprehending the most important occurrences relative to its early history. . . to which is added, an account of the expeditions of Genl's. Harmer, Scott, Wilkinson, St. Clair, & Wayne."

17 Joseph Persinger

The Life of Jacob Persinger. Sturgeon, Mo.: Moody & M'Michael, 1861.

". . . who was taken by the Shawnee Indians when an infant; with a short account of the Indian troubles in Missouri; and a Sketch of the adventures of the author."

From the narrative: "The squaw who adopted him had two sons. She took great pains to rear them according to Indian usage. Never expecting to give up the white child, she raised him as her own sons. Every morning she would immerse them in water, at all seasons of the year, and make them run about until they were dry, and then take them into her wigwam. When they were young, during several years, she would tie boards to their backs in order that they should grow straight. She took great pains in learning them to swim, and hunt with the bow and arrows; and in a few years she gave her white son a gun. The Indians were still hostile to the whites; they told him that 'the whites were cowards and would not stand fire.'"