Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
Fanny Kelly
Read by TriciaG
"Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians: with a brief account of General Sully's Indian expedition in 1864, bearing upon events occurring in my captivity"
"I was a member of a small company of emigrants, who were attacked by an overwhelming force of hostile Sioux, which resulted in the death of a large proportion of the party, in my own capture, and a horrible captivity of five months' duration. Of my thrilling adventures and experience during this season of terror and privation, I propose to give a plain, unvarnished narrative, hoping the reader will be more interested in facts concerning the habits, manners, and customs of the Indians, and their treatment of prisoners, than in theoretical speculations and fine-wrought sentences." (Summary from Introduction) (6 hr 37 min)
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Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
A LibriVox Listener
It's a captivating story . "No pun intended". The narrative is not long or drawn out but, gets right to the point of her experiences, emotions and decisions during such a tumultuous time.
LOVE IT and want more captive stories.
JAMES F from AU
Absolutely fascinating! Two cultures on two different paths. Nice to see another side of the story. Fanny had been to hell and back, what a wonderfully strong cool headed woman! Wonder Woman the FANNY KELLY clan. This was my first audio book and the lady who read this (you have a kind voice than you) may not have been a native English speaker and English may be her second language, therefore CUT HER SOME SLACK. The best is it's free!
1aprilfool
I was interested to hear of Fanny Kelly's experiences but I did not enjoy the narrator, who's cadence was irritating. Increasing the playback speed helped overcome her emphasis on the last word of every sentence.
Fantastic book, odd reading
Salmynka
This is a fascinating narrative, gripping and well written. Amazing book and thank you to the reader for bringing it to us. I do have to comment on the readers odd stilted style though, the strange inflection and flat emotionless narration made this a struggle to get in to initially, however I would urge listeners to persevere because the story is well worth it!
I enjoyed listening to this book.
Karen Bromberg
Quite frankly I at first, I thought that I would not like the voice of the reader. But after a few minutes I found that the readers voice was soothing. I hope to listen to more books that TricaG reads in the future.
Great true story of captivity and human nature.
ReaderKen
This is an outstanding piece of literature. The book will take you deep inside the life of Ms Kelly as she struggles with captivity, loss and the return to her people. The reader did an ok job but don’t think she’s a native speaker and as a result some of it suffers. The material carries it though and if you can tolerate the reading it’s worth it for sure.
A LibriVox Listener
Good narriative.The captives that were lucky (or unlucky) enough to survive faced terrible and horrifying torture. Many that were not as strong as Mrs. Kelly were not able to maintain their sanity in such a situation and were simply seen as no assett any more and killed. This will truly make you question everything that you have been taught in history class and have seen in the movies on how captives were treated.
cjg
I enjoyed this book but was distracted by the reader. The reader could benefit from a voice coach. Her inflections were not consistent with the text being read and was a constant distraction. Her voice would lilt up at the end of a sentence even if the text was horrific. A voice inflection should drop at a period indicating the end of the sentence. The book was great. The reader not.