![]() She attempted to follow but was recaptured while several warriors rode off after Mary. Mary agreed, and Fanny dropped her, then was immediately seized by the desire to join her. With the volume of travelers on the Oregon Trail at the time, this seemed a logical plan to her. The remaining Sioux looted the five wagons, then forced Fanny, Sarah, and the two children.to ride off with them.įearful of what their captors planned, Fanny explained to little Mary that she would drop her to the ground, and that she must run back along the trail until she found someone to help her. Another wagon train that happened on the scene raced away, but warriors pursued them and killed one their number. Sharp, Noah Taylor, and Franklin outright and wounded Gardner Wakefield and William Larimer. The Sioux engaged in increasingly rowdy behavior, then attacked the party while several of the men, including Mr. Terrified, they did their best to appease the warriors, doling out their supplies on request and even preparing a meal for the warriors. They paid a tragic price for this decision.Īfter reaching Wyoming’s Little Box Elder Creek on July 12th, they were approached by a large band of perhaps 250 Oglala Sioux warriors led by the war chief, Ottawa. The company preferred the faster speed a smaller party could make. Two other men, Gardner Wakefied and Noah Taylor, fell in with the Kellys also. Another couple, William and Sarah Larimer with their eight-year-old son, Frank, left a larger wagon train to travel with them. #Indian photo gun captive plus#He set out for Montana Territory in the spring of 1864 with Fanny, Mary Hurley, their seven-year-old adopted daughter and Fanny’s niece, plus two ‘colored’ servants, Franklin and Andy. Kelly, a man who hoped to bolster his poor health with a change in climate. When she came of age, Fanny married Josiah S. Fanny and the rest of her family settled in Geneva, Kansas. Unfortunately, Fanny’s father died of cholera during the journey. Since the Cheyenne and Sioux were allied tribes, I based many of the events in Cheyenne Sunrise on Fanny’s experiences.īorn Fanny Wiggins in 1845, she lived in present-day Canada until her father, James Wiggins, relocated his family to Kansas in 1856. My research for this story led me to an account by Fanny Kelly of her capture and imprisonment by the Sioux. I finally gave into the temptation to write one of them in Cheyenne Sunrise, a western historical romance set in a time of unrest in the Wild West. The struggle to survive in a foreign culture amid trials of endurance whisper stories to me. ![]() The plight of American pioneer women captured by local tribes has long sparked my imagination. ![]()
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