The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories

ISBN-13: 9781554811205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 300 str.

Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith; Caroline Woidat; Caroline Woidat

Opis

Widely read in their time, these works by a pioneering American feminist are now available in a Broadview Edition.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on the Text

The Western Captive; or, The Times of Tecumseh

“Indian Traits: The Story of Niskagah” (1840)
“Machinito: The Evil Spirit; from the Legends of Iaogu” (1845)
“Beloved of the Evening Star” (1847)
From “The Sagamore of Saco: A Legend of Maine” (1848)
“Kinneho: A Legend of Moosehead Lake” (1851)

Appendix A: Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s Writings on Her Life and Women’s Rights

1. From A Human Life: Being the Autobiography of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (c. 1885)
2. From Woman and Her Needs (1851)

Appendix B: Tecumseh, Captivity Narratives, and Indian-White Romance

1. From John Dunn Hunter, Memoirs of a Captivity among the Indians of North America (1823)
2. From James E. Seaver [and Mary Jemison], A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1824)
3. From John Tanner and Edwin James, A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner (1830)
4. From R. S. Dills, History of Greene County, Together with Historic Notes on the Northwest, and the State of Ohio (1881)

Appendix C: Stories of Harrison and the Shawnee in Campaign Biographies

1. From James Hall, A Memoir of the Public Services of William Henry Harrison, of Ohio (1836)
2. From Samuel Jones Burr, The Life and Times of William Henry Harrison (1840)

Appendix D: Oakes Smith and the Schoolcrafts

1. Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, “Moowis, The Indian Coquette. A Chippewa Legend” (1827)
2. Elizabeth Oakes Smith, Letter to Jane L. [Johnston] Schoolcraft (1842)
3. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft [with Elizabeth Oakes Smith], from “Nursery and Cradle Songs of the Forest” (1845)
4. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, “Idea of an American Literature based on Indian Mythology” (1845)
5. Elizabeth Oakes Smith, “Mrs. Henry R. Schoolcraft” (1874)

Works Cited and Recommended Reading