Podcasts Culture KZYX Public Affairs For the Love of Reading: Lucy Young, A True Indian Story

For the Love of Reading: Lucy Young, A True Indian Story

Published: Nov. 8, 2021, 5:47 p.m.

November 3, 2021--Linda Pack reads the saga of Lucy Young, a Wailaki Indian girl, who in 1862, when she was 10 years old, fled from soldiers and from white men who trafficked in Indian children. In 1939, when Lucy Young was in her 90s, she told her story to her neighbor in Covelo, Edith Van Allen Murphey, OUT OF THE PAST: A TRUE INDIAN STORY, TOLD BY LUCY YOUNG OF ROUND VALLEY INDIAN RESERVATION. Published in the California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 4, December 1941.