7 Mary Barber

The True Narrative of the Five Years' Suffering & Perilous Adventures by Miss Barber, Wife of 'Squatting Bear,' A Celebrated Sioux Chief. Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., 1872.

"Miss Barber, a native of Massachusetts, in her religious enthusiasm, resolved to go among the Indians, as missionary, and with that purpose in view married Squatting Bear, at Washington, D.C. After five years of sufferings and stirring adventures, this beautiful young lady has just returned East, and her narrative is one of deep and entrancing interest . . . A valuable feature of this work is the Indian Receipts, given by Miss Barber, for the cure of various diseases." After years of travail in the Dakota country among her husband's tribesmen, and hardships which culminated, practically speaking, in escape from an intolerable captivity, a presumably sadder but wiser-and didactic-Miss Barber warns other young women not to take the course of a "silly girl" in wishing to reform the Indian.

8 Annie Coleson

Miss Annie Coleson's Own Narrative of Her Captivity Among the Sioux Indians. Philadelphia: Barclay & Co., 1875.

"An interesting and remarkable account of the terrible sufferings and providential escape of this beautiful young lady."

9 John Marrant

A Narrative of the Life of John Marrant, of New York, in North America: Giving an Account of His Conversion When Only Fourteen Years of Age. Leeds: Davies and Co., 1815.

" . . . His leaving his mother's house from religious motives, wandering several days in the desert without food, and being at last taken by an Indian hunter among the Cherokees, where he was condemned to die. With an account of the conversion of the king of the Cherokees and his daughter."

10 Massy Harbison

A Narrative of the Sufferings of Massy Harbison from Indian Barbarity Giving an Account of Her captivity, the Murder of Her Two Children, Her Escape, with an Infant at Her Breast; Together with some Account of the Cruelties of the Indians, on the Allegheny River, &c., During the Years 1790, '91, '92, '93, '94. Pittsburgh: D. and M. Maclean, 1828.

As Johonnot's narrative, the Harbison account refers to the resultant confusion on the frontier after the defeat of St. Clair. See as well an earlier printing in item 3.

11 Jackson Johonnot

The Remarkable Adventures of Jackson Johonnot, of Massachusetts, Who Served as a Soldier in the western Army, in the Expedition Under Gen. Harmar and Gen. St. Clair, Containing an Account of His Captivity, Sufferings, and Escape from the Kickappo Indians. Greenfield, Mass.: A. Phelps, 1816.

Johonnot: "There is seldom a more difficult task undertaken by a man than the act of writing a narrative of a person's own life:-especially where the incident borders on the marvellous." See also item 3 (Manheim). "On the 4th of November, 1791, a force of Americans under General Arthur St. Clair was attacked, near the present Ohio-Indiana boundary line, by about the same number of Indians led by Blue Jacket . . . Their defeat was the most disastrous that ever has been suffered by our arms when engaged against a savage foe on anything like even terms. Out of 86 officers and about 1400 regular and militia soldiers, St. Clair lost 70 officers killed or wounded and 845 men killed, wounded, or missing. The survivors fled in panic . . . Such was 'St. Clair's defeat' . . . After this unprecedented victory, the Indians became more troublesome than ever along the frontier. No settler's home was safe, and many were destroyed in the year of terror that followed."-see Kephart, Captives Among the Indians.