7 Female Pioneers Who Survived Against All Odds

Описание: They boiled leather.
Then they ate the dead…
A 19-year-old girl chewed strips of human flesh to stay alive in the mountains…
And she wasn’t alone…
One girl watched her niece get scalped.
Another gave birth to her abuser’s child after five months in captivity…
One froze alone for seven months in the Rockies… She was fourteen years old…
But what does survival really look like when no help is coming?

Why are the stories of women on the frontier so often erased—or sanitized?

And how did these five endure what should’ve killed them?

Today, we’re revealing the absolute truth about the brave pioneer women and girls who were taken, broken, and buried in stories no one wanted to hear… Until now…

My name is Sam, and this is Wild America…


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CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:04 - Anna Brewster Morgan
00:05:19 - Abbie Gardner Sharp
00:11:23 - Janette Riker
00:17:40 - Mary Ann Graves
00:21:50 - Olive Oatman
00:28:18 - Catherine Sager
00:35:18 - Fanny Kelly

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