Dark Hills to Westward The Saga of Jenny Wiley eBook Harry M Caudill
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A fictionalized account of Jenny Wiley's captivity and escape¶
based on her own narrative. Thomas and Jenny Wiley had pioneered land¶
on Walker's Creek in Bland County, Virginia. On October 1, 1789, while¶
Thomas was away, a small band of Indians, seeking revenge for a recent defeat at the hands of white settlers, attacked the Wiley cabin and killed and scalped Jenny's three older children and her brother. Jenny, seven months pregnant, was taken captive along with her baby son, Adam.
Then began a nightmare flight through the wilderness into the dark Kentucky hills to westward. Jenny's only hope for survival was to keep pace with her captors. Her captivity and escape nearly a year later are vividly recounted in this book.
Dark Hills to Westward The Saga of Jenny Wiley eBook Harry M Caudill
Caudill expands the story of pregnant Jenny Wiley, who was abducted in the 1790's from her frontier home in West Virginia, held captive by a band of Indians for a year, forced to witness the torture killing of another captive, being traded to another group, and - finally - her improbable and harrowing escape to a white settlement. Jenny is reunited with her husband and lives with him happily ever after ... not quite. The book is really more than The Saga of Jenny Wiley, although that provides a good starting point - for long discussions of the history of the frontier, the various Indian wars, the tribes - some fought and were annihilated, some adapted and were annihilated nonetheless, the shifting fortunes of French or English forces. Sometimes little of it all has to do with Jenny Wiley. In place of a Foreword Caudill has written an Afterword in which he outlines even more of the history of the frontier - until present day Kentucky. And finally, after the Afterword, Anne Caudill, wife of Harry Caudill, talks about him, the storyteller. "Another family tradition relates that Harry's great-great-grandfather Branson was scalped as an infant and left for dead, the only survivor of an Indian attack on his family's frontier home."Product details
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Dark Hills to Westward The Saga of Jenny Wiley eBook Harry M Caudill Reviews
Not for young readers.
a bit on the slow side but its perspective of the Indian character was new to me and interesting
A testament to the human spirit for survival. Never give up. Such an amazing young woman. A very good read. Recommend.
This is a book that tells the story of a many times great aunt of mine. My grandmother always told us the story and we were happy to finally find that the book was back in print.
I really enjoyed this book. My ancestors came from this part of Kentucky and it gave me an insight into what life was like in the pioneer days. They were strong, adventurous people.
It got a little tedious, to me, but was worth the read.
If you think your having a bad day, you need to read this true account of an amazing frontier women. Her 3 children and 15 yr old brother butchered in front of her,scalped. Has a baby on the trail,made slave to the Indians. A witness to unspeakable torture to others, escapes back to her husband and continues to raise kids and go on with a life. In our modern era this women would have been "sent away" locked up on a Ward and forgotten. How did these early American women overcome this stuff without Paxil Opra and Therapy? This was one of my Grandmothers,and I can see shades of her in some of my now dead Aunts and other women in my family. They did not take "Crap" from a drunk husband, or call the Cops...they would bust your head open if need be. There was no 911, they were 911, and I miss those women now as an old man. So if your at Starbucks and your Latte is late, you may think about women like Jenny, and think...yeah, life is great!
Caudill expands the story of pregnant Jenny Wiley, who was abducted in the 1790's from her frontier home in West Virginia, held captive by a band of Indians for a year, forced to witness the torture killing of another captive, being traded to another group, and - finally - her improbable and harrowing escape to a white settlement. Jenny is reunited with her husband and lives with him happily ever after ... not quite. The book is really more than The Saga of Jenny Wiley, although that provides a good starting point - for long discussions of the history of the frontier, the various Indian wars, the tribes - some fought and were annihilated, some adapted and were annihilated nonetheless, the shifting fortunes of French or English forces. Sometimes little of it all has to do with Jenny Wiley. In place of a Foreword Caudill has written an Afterword in which he outlines even more of the history of the frontier - until present day Kentucky. And finally, after the Afterword, Anne Caudill, wife of Harry Caudill, talks about him, the storyteller. "Another family tradition relates that Harry's great-great-grandfather Branson was scalped as an infant and left for dead, the only survivor of an Indian attack on his family's frontier home."
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