Describes how twelve different children were captured by Indians in Colonial America, the lives they led among the various tribes as well as their subsequent history.

"The lives of Herman Lehmann, who was taken by the Indians as a boy from his Texas home & adopted by them; his career as an authentic wild warrior with the Apache & Commanche tribes; his subsequent restoration to the bosom of his family & the difficulties & confusions faced in adjusting his savage training to a civilized society; his experiences carrying him from the time of the scalping knife to the very threshold of our atomic age; together with...

Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.

In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year-old pioneer traveling west toward Zion with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohaves, who tattooed her face...

Retells the story of the capture and captivity of Olive and Mary Ann, and eventual release of Olive Oatman.

Tanner's account of being captured as a boy by Shawnee Indians in 1789 and later being raised as an Ojibwa.