Some Went West

by Dorothy M. Johnson and Virginia Scharff

Book Overview

Dorothy Johnson, author of The Hanging Tree and Indian Country , describes the great western experience of a number of nineteenth-century women of widely different situations and fates. Some were captured by Indians. Cynthia Ann Parker, assimilated to the Comanche tribe after being captured as a child, was later recaptured by U.S. soldiers who killed her Comanche husband and separated her forever from her sons. Pioneer Fanny Kelly spent five months...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803275986
• ISBN13: 9780803275980
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"