How two young children survived one of the most treacherous stories in recent history...

Just imagine fighting for your family's survival, barely scraping by, and then watching everything you own to be taken from you.

Royce Oatman experienced such a fate, and although it's horrific what happened to the Oatman family, it's not the whole story.

The Wild West, a time in America between 1850 and 1910, is often overdramatized in Hollywood, which does a splendid job of making the Indians seem like savages and the cowboys come across as heroic gunslingers.

While at times this may be true, at other times it's not.

We're all free to study and analyze the history books at our own discretion, drawing our own conclusions. But it's important that we look at things from as objective a perspective as possible.

With a bit of insight into the Native American culture, paired with a larger understanding of how the settlers of the west actually lived, you'll be able to decipher what happened to the Oatman family of your own accord, empowering an honest understanding of this history.

In The Captivity of the Oatman Girls, you'll discover:

• Powerful insight into the truth of the relations between the settlers and the Plains Indians of North America
• Why the actions of the colonists in the late 18th century bordered genocide -- and how this shifted the landscape forever
• Why retaliation and vengeance created an exponential rise in violence -- and why much of this could have been avoided
• Why getting to the "New World" was something everyone wanted (and at what cost they were willing to make it happen)
• What went wrong for the Oatman family on that fateful day -- and why there is likely nothing they could have done to avoid it
• How young Lorenzo Oatman survived a series of deadly attacks, and how this positively impacted the entire story
• What happened when Olive and Lorenzo finally returned to western civilization... and how this has forever impacted the way we discuss and look at the culture of the Native Americans

And much more.

The key to properly understanding history is to look at events from an unbiased and open perspective.

The Oatman story is no different, and when you allow yourself to take in the details without attaching any preconceived notions of what is or isn't true, you'll find yourself filled with new and powerful insight.