Title: Dark hills to westward
First published: 1969
Description: In 1789 Jennie Wiley was carried off from her cabin by a band of marauding Indians. She did not return to her husband until she made good her escape a year later. This story, is fictionalized but based on fact, of one woman's remarkable endurance and of frontier life in the rich, beautiful and teeming hills of Appalachia.
Subjects: Indian captivities, Women pioneers, Frontier and pioneer life, Fiction
Places: Kentucky
People: Jennie (Sellards) Wiley (d. 1831), Jennie Sellards Wiley (d. 1831)