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The early 19th-century trappers who traipse through the Rockies in search of beaver pelts are called mountain men-all but one, whose unique tale is told here by her daughter, Bathsheba Hex, in 1901. In 1819, Kentucky-born Bet Hex ventures up the Missouri River with a fur-trading expedition. Captured first by Arapahos and then by Pawnees, she is rescued by a French voyageur. After his death, she sets out alone to make her home in the wilderness...

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Captured is offbeat (but young Danny is quite "on" with his observations) historical fiction whose cast of characters includes Chief Red Cloud, Colonel Henry Carrington and Captain William Fetterman. Libbie Duly, pregnant and with her husband residing in the local insane asylum, leaves Chicago in 1866 for booming Virginia City, Montana Territory. On the Oregon Trail she gives birth to the remarkable Danny Duly, who already began narrating this...

Captured is offbeat (but young Danny is quite "on" with his observations) historical fiction whose cast of characters includes Chief Red Cloud, Colonel Henry Carrington and Captain William Fetterman. Libbie Duly, pregnant and with her husband residing in the local insane asylum, leaves Chicago in 1866 for booming Virginia City, Montana Territory. On the Oregon Trail she gives birth to the remarkable Danny Duly, who already began narrating this...