Virginia Kerns
Gebundenes Buch

Sally in Three Worlds

An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young

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In this remarkable and deeply felt book, Virginia Kerns uncovers the singular and forgotten life of a young Indian woman who was captured in 1847 in what was then Mexican territory. Sold to a settler, a son-in-law of Brigham Young, the woman spent the next thirty years as a servant to Young's family. Sally, as they called her, lived in the shadows, largely unseen. She was later remembered as a 'wild' woman made 'tame' who happily shed her past to enter a new and better life in civilization.  Drawing from a broad range of primary sources, Kerns retrieves Sally from obscurity and reconstructs h...