Favorites

Brokeburn: Diary of Kate Stone (My all-time favorite)
Cormany Diaries: Rachel and Samuel Cormany (diaries of a northern husband and wife)
Sad Earth, Sweet Heaven: Diary of Lucy Buck
Kate Sperry
A Civil War Captain and His Lady (Courtship Letters) Editor: Gene Barr
Defend the Valley by Margaretta Barton Colt

The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman (by Margot Mifflin)
Captured by the Indians: 15 Firsthand Accounts, 1750-1870, edited by Frederick Drummer
Captive of the Cheyenne by Russ Czaplewski
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
Nine Years Among the Indians by Herman Lehmann
Sixteen Weeks in the Sioux Teepees by Sarah Wakefield
Narrative of my Captivity Among the Sioux Indians by Fanny Kelly

“I found him whom my soul loveth.” Song of Solomon 3:4
“Now unto Him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that worketh in us.” Ephesians 4:20
And Ruth said, “Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God, my God.
“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions….10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” Psalms 51: 1, 10
“Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea” Psalm 46: 2