Narrative of the Captivity of William Biggs among the Kickapoo Indians in Illinois in 1788

Name: Narrative of the Captivity of William Biggs among the Kickapoo Indians in Illinois in 1788
Author: William Biggs

by William Biggs

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2008-10-07

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Indian captivities Kickapoo Indians E011

About the author

William Biggs

1755–1827

An early American frontiersman left behind a vivid first-person account of being captured by Kickapoo warriors in Illinois in 1788 and escaping against the odds. His short narrative remains a striking piece of frontier history and captivity literature.

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