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The western captive and other Indian stories / Elizabeth Oakes Smith ; edited by Caroline M. Woidat.
- Title
- The western captive and other Indian stories / Elizabeth Oakes Smith ; edited by Caroline M. Woidat.
- Author
- Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893.
- Publication
- Peterborough, ON : Broadview Editions, 2015.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Woidat, Caroline M
- Description
- 332 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Broadview editions
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections
- Broadview editions.
- Alternative Title
- Works.
- Times of Tecumseh.
- Subjects
- Note
- This edition recovers Elizabeth Oakes Smith's successful 1842 novel The Western Captive; or, The Times of Tecumseh with many of Oakes's Smith's other writings about Native Americans, including short stories, legends, autobiographical and biographical sketches. The primary texts are accompanied by selections from Oakes Smith's Woman and Her Needs and from her unpublished autobiography. Other captivity narratives, writings by Oakes Smith's colleagues Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and contemporary depictions of the Shawnee people are also included.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Elizabeth Oakes Smith: a brief chronology -- The Western captive; or, The time of Tecumseh -- Indian traits: the story of Niskagah (1840) -- Machinito, The evil spirit; from the legends of Iagou (1845) -- Beloved of the Evening Star: an Indian legend (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 -- Appendix B: Tecumseh, captivity narratives, and Indian-White romance -- Appendix C: Stories of Harrison and the Shawnee in campaign biographies -- Appendix D: Oakes Smith and the Schoolcrafts.
- ISBN
- 9781554811205 (paperback)
- 1554811201 (paperback)
- OCLC
- 898088466
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library