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21 Months A Captive
Rachel Plummer and the
Fort Parker Massacre
(Annotated)
by James W. Parker
and Rachel Plummer
Big Byte Books 2016
Revised 2020
ebook version
90 pages
2020 edition contains newly unearthed information about the participants.
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
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Narratives of North American Indian Captives, Volume 63
Barker, Solomon. Interesting Narrative
Of The Sufferings of Joseph Barker and his
Wife. 1848.
An Indian Tradition. (Escape of William
Wallace). 1848.
Adam, George. The Dreadful Sufferings
of Emigrants to California. 1850.
Brice, James. History of the Revolutionary
War. (Captivity of John and Robert Brice).
1851.
Butterfield, David C. Life and Adventures.
1851.
Edited by Wilcomb E Washburn
Garland Publishing 1978
Digitized by Internet Archive 2017
Online library loan from Internet Archive
256 pages
History of the Captivity and Providential Release Therefrom of Mrs. Caroline Harris
Wife of the late Mr. Richard Harris, of
Franklin Co., State of N. York; who, with
Mrs.Clarissa Plummer, wife of Mr. James
Plummer, were, in the Spring of 1835,
(with their unfortunate husbands,) taken
prisoner by the Camanche tribe of Indians,
while emigrating from said Franklin Co.
(N. Y.) to Texas; and after having been
made to witness the tragical deaths of
their husbands, and held for nearly two
years in bondage, were providentially
redeemed therefrom by two of their
countrymen attached to a company
of Santa Fe Fur Traders.
by Caroline Harris
G. Cunningham 1838
pdf download from Internet Archive
24 page pamplet
Narritive of the Captively and Extreme Sufferings of Mrs. Clarissa Plummer
Wife of the late Mr. James Plummer, of
Franklin County, State of New York; who,
with Mrs. Caroline Harris, wife of the late
Mr. Richard Harris, were, in the Spring of
1835, with their unfortunate families,
surprised and taken prisoners by a party
of the Camanche tribe of Indians, while
emigrating from said Franklin Co. (N. Y.) to
Texas; and after having been held nearly
two years in captivity, and witnessed the
deaths of their husbands, were fortunately
redeemed from the hands of the savages
by an American Fur Trader, a native of Georgia.
by Clarissa Plummer
Perry and Cooke 1838
pdf download from Internet Archive
24 page pamplet
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