In our latest issue, @khickmanauthor uncovers a chain of destruction that culminated in the tragic killing of 19th-century missionary Narcissa Whitman, the first white woman to complete the overland journey west. https://t.co/1TmpV9hHsx
I wrote about cowboys and, as it turned out, cannibals for @DailyMirror Many thanks to historian @khickmanauthor and her fascinating book Brave Hearted (documenting the voices of female pioneers) for her help with this. https://t.co/9QmhVadmiV
In 1850, 13-year-old Olive Oatman and her family set off on the perilous journey by foot from Missouri to Arizona. Olive and her little sister were captured by a group of Native Americans and then sold to another. Here, rather than being treated as slaves, the girls were treated with kindness and welcomed as kin. But her version of her story was to be twisted and rewritten in the years that followed…
Listen @EmpirePodUK as @tweeter_anita and William are joined once again by @khickmanauthor Katie Hickman to discuss the extraordinary experiences of Olive Oatman.
https://t.co/gEHgSFDAan
LISTEN HERE to The Oldie Literary Lunch Recording - Katie Hickman on Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West @khickmanauthor@OldieMagazine#oldiepodcast
https://t.co/MWc3oOAMLZ
Listen @EmpirePodUK as William and @tweeter_anita are joined by @khickmanauthor to discuss life at Fort Laramie, the story of the mixed race eye-witness to this period, Susan Bordeaux,
and her account of what snowballed into the First Sioux War.
!! New Episode !! Along the Oregon Trail, thousands of emigrants in search of gold and religious utopias disrupted the peace that existed at Fort Laramie.