The Lost Wife, Moore - B

                       Sarah is left at an orphanage by her mother.  She grows up, and marries a violent man who she leaves in the dead of night. She travels to Minnesota in the year 1855. It is a time of desperation and crushing poverty on the frontier. She marries a physician, has two children and is living happily in the Dakota Territory where her husband takes care of the Sioux. She befriends many of the women who later protect her after she and her two children are taken captive during an uprising in 1862. Many, many whites along the frontier are murdered, and the US Army is in pursuit as the Indians travel north and west. Eventually, Sarah and her children are freed by the cavalry. The Indian warrior who had protected her and the children by claiming her as his wife is sentenced to death. He had never touched her, had acted honorably and she trys to plead his case, but fails. Because she had been close to the Indians, white society shuns her, as does her husband, who has survived the uprising. This novel is based on the true story of a white woman kidnapped for six weeks by the Sioux in 1862. She too attracted society's disdain for her empathy for the Indians.