The Captivity of the Oatman Girls

The History of the Young Sisters Who Were Abducted by Native Americans in the 1850s

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Scott Clem

Length: 1 hr and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

On the North American continent, Native American tribes carried out abductions against the new European settlers from the time they first set foot on eastern shores. Some of the women taken in the colonial to early American period went on to become respected figures in their new environments, while others lived out their lives as slaves. Various tribes perceived the historical value of women's social personalities through different prisms, and even those groups living in the same region often exhibited dissimilar behavior toward them. For some of the more aggressive tribal societies, to commit atrocities against women and their children engaged the same mindset as that adopted for male-to-male warfare. What European sensibilities failed to grasp, despite the home continent's own lurid history, was that the numerous indigenous cultures of North America were already in the habit of perpetrating such abductions against each other and had for thousands of years.

©2017 Charles River Editors (P)2017 Charles River Editors

Outman Girls

Interesting story. Not very long. The reader is very monotone. I think if there was a different reader I would have liked the story more.

The reader is monotone.

The reader does not change his voice at all when describing the deaths or events of the massacre. I couldn’t listen past a few pages-it sounded like a computer-generated voice. Terrible. Choose another version.

horrible narrator

narrator has no feeling for subject matter, and if the main character is female, can it be narrated in a female voice?

Interesting

Interesting story but I personally didn’t like the narrator’s voice. Too dry. No expression. The life of Olive Oatman was horrific.

Only just the beginning of the story

It left me wanting more, I wanted to hear more about her life in captivate. The story mentioned other books that are no longer in print.

Interesting

Interesting historical information
Reads like a text book from school.
Hard to stay awake through it.

Interesting Story

The story of the Oatman massacre & capture of the two young daughters was interesting. But the reader made the story hard to follow as it jumps around & the voice is not clear.

Horrible Narration

This is a fascinating story told by a horrible narrator. Half the time I couldn’t tell if it was just a really bad recording or if he had a bad speech impediment. Wish I hadn’t spent a credit on this title.

My Review

Very Slow Start. A lot of info that most people would not care to know like the longitude latitude of where certain things took place. That’s dull filler info. There were some interesting items, but the narrator’s voice and tone did nothing for me to stay interested. I could have read it better.

Good story

Very interesting story.
Some facts hard to understand from narration. I think a movie about this would be worth seeing.