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

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.