Sally in three worlds : an Indian captive in the house of Brigham Young

In this remarkable and deeply felt book, Virginia Kerns uncovers the singular and forgotten life of a young Indian woman who was captured in 1847 in what was then Mexican territory. Sold to a settler, a son-in-law of Brigham Young, the woman spent the next thirty years as a servant to Young’s family. Sally, as they called her, lived in the shadows, largely unseen. She was later remembered as a “wild” woman made “tame” who happily shed her past to enter a new and better life in civilization. Drawing from a broad range of primary sources, Kerns retrieves Sally from obscurity and reconstructs her complex life before, during, and after captivity. This true story from the American past resonates deeply in the current moment, attentive as it is to killing epidemics and racial injustices. In telling Sally’s story, Kerns presents a new narrative of the American West. "This manuscript reconstructs and interprets the life of "Sally," an Indian woman who was captured and enslaved in Utah in 1847. Her captors sold her to a settler who had just arrived in the Salt Lake Valley and she ended up in his father-in-law's house. Sally served as the longtime servant and cook in Brigham Young's household, living and working in the Lion House and Beehive House for over twenty years. Kerns has drawn on a broad range of ethnographic, linguistic, archival, and other documentary evidence from primary sources to present the life of this Native woman"-- Provided by publisher Contents Introduction: Finding the Words I. Mountains and Sky 1. The Trade 2. The Native Wild 3. Forts II. The Heart of Civilization 4. The City 5. Plagues 6. The Mansions 7. The Kitchen 8. Resistance 9. Reports III. Exiles 10. The Civilizing Mission 11. The Village 12. The Telling Acknowledgments Appendix: Sally and the House of Brigham Young Notes Bibliography Index Because of the sheer volume of industrial debris and the limited information it yields, quarries are challenging archaeological subjects. Michael Shott tackles this challenge in a study of flakes and preforms from the Modena and Tempiute obsidian quarries of North America's Great Basin.