"Brave male defenders, hysterical women, and despoiling Indians...Annie is ultimately rescued by a white woodsman...her knight in shining buckskins." - The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America (2007)
On the night of the 12th of January, the log cabin of Ms. A. Coleson, near New Ulm, in Minnesota, was attacked by a straggling party of Sioux Indians, under their Chief, White Eagle, a warrior of some renown. In 1875 Ann Coleson's narrative was published of her captivity by the Sioux Indians in the wilderness of Minnesota and her harrowing escape through the winter wilds back to civilization. Her 1875 book was titled "Miss Annie Coleson's Own Narrative of Her Captivity Among the Sioux Indians."
In describing the end of her escape, Coleson writes:
"During the night the wolves howled dreadfully, and the distant scream of a panther echoed through the woods; but we began to feel ourselves in comparative safety; we believed that a station of United States troops was not far distant, and we were all aware that the savages would avoid the vicinity of such neighbors."
