The Indian Captive (Expanded, Annotated)

The Indian Captive: The True Story of Matthew Brayton is one of the most extraordinary survival narratives of nineteenth-century America. Kidnapped as a boy in frontier Ohio, Matthew Brayton was forced to live among various Native American tribes for an astonishing thirty-four years before his dramatic return to civilization in 1859—a story that captivated newspapers across the nation.

In his own words, Brayton recounts his years of endurance, adaptation, and transformation within tribal lif...