Urania S White

Captivity Among The Sioux August 18 to September 26, 1862. Urania S White

The amazing true story told by a pioneer woman who was captured on August 18, 1862 and held until she was freed on September 26, 1862 at Camp Release, Minnesota. She brings to the reader the day-to-day life as a captive of a band of Dakota Sioux led by Little Crow during a little known piece of American history called The Dakota War. This incredible 37 year old mother of four, whose oldest son was killed at the onset of hostilities, a twelve year old son who was lost in the mayhem and had to survive on his own, and her fourteen year old daughter in the same camp but not out of danger of being married off to a Sioux warrior, details her cultural insight as she fought to keep her youngest, a five month old son, from starving to death during their ordeal.