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Kidnapped and Sold by Indians: True Story of Settler Child

In the early 1800s, a seven-year-old boy from a settler family is seized by Native American raiders and passed from one group to another over several years. This memoir sets out his experience of being taken far from home, living among many different tribes, and facing uneven treatment along the way.

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Rather than repeating the romantic tales once told about children raised by Indians, the account offers a plain and unvarnished view of a divided life, caught between two worlds, and of the family and community he struggled to return to.

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