(028742) Carpenter, Teresa. The Miss Stone Affair: America's First Hostage Crisis. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 238 pages. Fine in Fine DJ. B&W Illustrations. In 1901, Miss Ellen Stone, an American missionary, set out on horseback for a trek across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia. In a narrow gorge she was attacked by a band of masked men who captured her for ransom ISBN: 0743200551 (Stone, Ellen Maria, Macedonia, Missionaries, Kidnapping)
