{"product_id":"taken-by-the-shawnee-paperback","title":"Taken by the Shawnee - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSallie Bingham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A masterpiece of women's frontier experience!\" --KATHY SCHULZ, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Underground Railroad in Ohio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is an amazing\u003cbr\u003ebook, and I couldn't stop reading it.\" --JOAN SILBER, PEN\/Faulkner and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSecrets of Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eImprovement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An awesome account of female survival at a horrific time.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBOOKLIST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA\u003cbr\u003emost unusual portrait of early America based on a rare family document, in which a young mother's years in captivity with the Shawnee prove to be the best years of her life.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's 1779 and a young white woman named Margaret Erskine is venturing west from Virginia, on horseback, with her baby daughter and the rest of her family. She has no experience of Indians, and has absorbed most of the prejudices of her time, but she is open-minded, hardy, and mentally strong, a trait common to most of her female descendants--Sallie Bingham's ancestors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBingham had heard Margaret's story since she was a child but didn't see the fifteen pages Margaret had dictated to her nephew a generation after her captivity until they turned up in her mother's blue box after her death. Devoid of most details, this restrained account inspired Bingham to research and imagine and fill the gaps in her story and to consider the tough questions it raises. How did Margaret, our narrator, bear witnessing the murder of her infant? How did she survive her near death at the hands of the Shawnee after the murder of the chief? Whose father was her baby John's, born nine months after her taking? And why did her former friends in Union, Virginia, turn against her when, ransomed after four years, she reluctantly returned?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the seldom told story of the making of this country in the years of the Revolution, what it cost in lives and suffering, and how one woman among many not only survived extreme hardship, but flourished.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSallie Bingham is the author of seventeen books, including \u003ci\u003eLittle Brother: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTreason: A Sallie Bingham Reader\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilver Swan: In Search of Doris Duke\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePassion and Prejudice: A Family Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e. She is winner of the 2023 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize, Foreword Magazine's Gold Medal in Fiction for \u003ci\u003eMending: New \u0026amp; Selected Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and her work has been included in \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe PEN\/O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Bingham is founder of the Kentucky Foundation for Women and The Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History at Duke University. She was publisher of \u003ci\u003eThe American Voice\u003c\/i\u003e from 1989 to 1998 and book editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Courier Journal\u003c\/i\u003e from 1983 to 1989. She lives in Santa Fe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 11, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47387063287986,"sku":"9781885983367","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/4cd1de40268644a677e8759b781184a4.webp?v=1777914199","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/taken-by-the-shawnee-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}