Two Months in Big Bears Camp

In "Two Months in Big Bears Camp, 1885," Sarah Carter argues that in their book "Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear: The Life and Adventures of Theresa Gowanlock and Theresa Delaney," the authors falsify their accounts of the happenings documented within. Both Theresa's tell significantly different stories immediatly after their release from the cree camp than what is published. The resulting work, is a reflection of the stereotypes of the times, as well as …

…her argument once she got around to making it. At first I wasn't sure exactly what it was she was planning to argue, but when she made her case it was well supported. However, she does draw attention to the "stockholm syndrome" (The behavior of hostages or prisoners who appear to accept and replicate the bhavious of their captors)60, which has the potential, although overlooked here, to seriously discredit a large part of her argument.