‎Captivity of the Oatman Girls: Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians

The 9th of August, 1850, was a lovely day. The sun had looked upon the beautiful plains surrounding Independence, Missouri, with a full, unclouded face, for thirteen hours of that day; when, standing about four miles south of westward from the throbbing city of Independence, alive with the influx an…