Notable Captivity Narratives
- Robert Adams (1816), The Narrative of Robert Adams
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1542), La Relacion (The Report); Translated as The Narrative of Cabeza De Vaca by Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz.
- Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda (1575) Memoir On the Country and Ancient Indian Tribes Of Florida
- Mary Rowlandson (1682), The Sovereignty and Goodness of God"
- Cotton Mather (1696–97), The Captivity of Hannah Dustan
- John Williams (Reverend) (1709), The Redeemed Captive
- Gyles, John (1736). Memoirs of odd adventures, strange deliverances, &c. in the captivity of John Gyles, Esq; commander of the garrison on St. George's River (1st ed.). Boston: Printed and sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green, in Queen-Street,. http://books.google.com/books?id=dB4TAAAAYAAJ. Retrieved 7 September 2010.
- Mercy Harbison (1792) The Capture and Escape of Mercy Harbison, 1792
- Jackson Johonnet (1793), The Remarkable Adventures of Jackson Johonnet, of Massachusetts
- Susannah Willard Johnson (1796), A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson, Containing an Account of Her Sufferings During Four Years With the Indians and French
- Ann Eliza Bleecker (1797), The History of Maria Kittle
- John Ingles (c. 1824), The Story of Mary Draper Ingles and Son Thomas Ingles
- Mary Jemison (1824), A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
- John Tanner (1830) A Narrative of the captivity and adventures of John Tanner, thirty years of residence among the Indians, prepared for the press by Edwin James.
- Sharpe, Abby Gardner (Des Moines Iowa Printing co., 1885) History of the Spirit Lake (Iowa) Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abby Gardner, full text online at Archive Website, accessed 15 January 2011.
- John Rodgers Jewitt (1896). The adventures of John Jewitt: only survivor of the crew of the ship, Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island. Clement Wilson.Available online through the Washington State Library's Classics in Washington History collection
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