The Capture and Escape
Author : Sarah Luse Larimer
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Dakota Indians
ISBN :
The Capture and Escape from the Sioux
Author : Sarah L. Larimer
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 21,82 MB
Release : 2013-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782820888
Book Description
In July, 1864 hostile Oglala Sioux Indians attacked the wagon train of the pioneering Kelly and Larimer families approximately 80 miles west of Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Several people were killed or wounded but Sarah Larimer and Fanny Kelly, together with some of their children, were taken into captivity by the Indians. On the second night of their captivity Sarah Larimer and her son managed to escape from the Indian camp and after many difficulties and privations they reached the Deer Creek telegraph station and safety. This book is Sarah Larimer's story of her ordeal.
The Capture
Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0007215177
Book Description
"A young Barn Owl named Soren lives peacefully with his family. After he is pushed from his nest by his older brother, his idyllic world transforms into one of confusion and danger, as he is captured by evil chick-snatching owls and taken to the St Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls"--Goodreads.com.
The Greatest Escape
Author : Douglas Miller
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493051830
Book Description
The Greatest Escape: A True American Civil War Adventure tells the story of the largest prison breakout in U.S. history. It took place during the Civil War, when more than 1,200 Yankee officers were jammed into Libby, a special prison considered escape-proof, in the Confederate capitol of Richmond, Virginia. A small group of men, obsessed with escape, mapped out an elaborate plan and one cold and clear night, 109 men dug their way to freedom. Freezing, starving, clad in rags, they still had to travel 50 miles to Yankee lines and safety. They were pursued by all the white people in the area, but every Black person they encountered was their friend. In every instance, slaves risked their lives to help these Yankees, and their journey was aided by a female-led Union spy network. Since all the escapees were officers, they all could read and write well. Over 50 of them would publish riveting accounts of their adventures. This is the first book to weave together these contemporary accounts into a true-to-life narrative. Much like a Ken Burns documentary, this book uses the actual words the prisoners recorded more than 150 years ago, as found in their many diaries and journals.
Evading and Escaping Capture
Author : Sam Fury
Publisher : SF Nonfiction Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Book Description
Teach Yourself Escape and Evasion Tactics! Whether you're a high profile individual, a tourist, or a random target for an opportunistic criminal, there's a chance you'll be taken. This book is packed with covert military and spy escape techniques adapted for the average person. Discover the skills you need to evade and escape capture, because you never know when they will save your life. Get it now. Part One: Evading Capture All the knowledge you need to avoid becoming a victim. Learn how to: *Protect yourself online. *Bolster your home security. *Build a safe room without renovating your house. *Recognize common scams, whether at home or abroad. *Create a covert escape and survival kit. *Hide things so no-one will ever find them. *Track a missing person. *Disappear permanently. Part Two: Escaping Capture How to plan and execute an escape, including the techniques you need to: *Escape from restraints. *Breach entry and exit points. *Handle hostile negotiations. *Leave covert clues for rescuers to find you. *Endure captivity until you escape or are rescued. *Escape from vehicles. *Survive a car chase. *Pick pockets. *Escape a prisoner compound without being detected. *Evade guard dogs. ... and more. Limited Time Only... Get your copy of Evading and Escaping Capture today and you will also receive: *Free SF Nonfiction Books new releases *Exclusive discount offers *Downloadable sample chapters *Bonus content … and more! Teach yourself escape and evasion, because anyone can be a target. Get it now.
Passages to Freedom
Author : Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
They Shall Not Have Me
Author : Jean Helion
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1628724056
Book Description
The French painter Jean Hélion’s unique and deeply moving account of his experiences in Nazi prisoner-of-war camps prefigures the even darker stories that would emerge from the concentration camps. This serious adventure tale begins with Hélion’s infantry platoon fleeing from the German army and warplanes as they advanced through France in the early days of the war. The soldiers chant as they march and run, “They shall not have me!” but are quickly captured and sent to hard labor. Writing in English in 1943, after his risky escape to freedom in the United States, Hélion vividly depicts the sights, sounds, and smells of the camps, and shrewdly sizes up both captors and captured. In the deep humanity, humor, and unsentimental intelligence of his observations, we can recognize the artist whose long career included friendships with the likes of Mondrian, Giacometti, and Balthus, and an important role in shaping modern art movements. Hélion’s picture of almost two years without his art is a self-portrait of the artist as a man.
Escape from Corregidor
Author : Edgar D. Whitcomb
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0359267890
Book Description
Escape from Corregidor is the harrowing account of Edgar Whitcomb, a B-17 navigator who arrives in World War II Philippines just before its invasion by the Japanese. Whitcomb evades the enemy on Bataan by fleeing to Corregidor Island in a small boat. He is captured but later manages to escape at night in an hours-long swim to safety. Captured once again weeks later, Whitcomb is imprisoned, tortured and starved, before being transferred to China and eventual freedom.
The Capture, the Prison Pen, and the Escape; Giving a Complete History of Prison Life in the South ... To which is Added an Appendix, Containing the Name, Rank, Regiment, and Post-Office Address of Prisoners. Illustrated
Author : William Worcester Glazier
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 1870
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Escape from Dannemora
Author : Michael Benson
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 151260044X
Book Description
It was one of the biggest crime stories of the decade - two deadly killers, desperate and on the run. After months of planning, Ricky Matt and David Sweat cut, chopped, coerced, and connived their way out of a maximum-security prison in the wilderness of upstate New York and managed to elude police for three weeks, sending the region into lockdown and keeping the entire country on edge. The media called it "a bold escape for the ages," and veteran true-crime writer Michael Benson leads us along the story's every wild path to dig out a tale of adventure, psychology, sex, and brutality. Escape from Dannemora examines the strange case of Joyce Mitchell, the long-time prison employee who had a sexual relationship with at least one of the killers, and who smuggled them tools and aided in the escape, while they cooked up a plan to kill her husband. In the end, Benson looks closely at conditions at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY, a crumbling Gothic pile now under investigation for charges of drug trafficking and brutality.
