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Indian Captivities; Or, Life in the Wigwam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 394

Indian Captivities; Or, Life in the Wigwam

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1853
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Indian Captivities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 530

Indian Captivities

This book contains true stories of the horror, hardship, bloody warfare, torture and loss of loved ones that the early pioneer settlers on the frontier endured during undoubtedly the most terrifying and trying time in the history of our country. These stories were gathered by the author Samuel G. Drake and published back in 1857. Some of the stories he gathered were taken directly from the mouths of the survivors. Warning: Very Graphic. This book is part of the Historical Collection of Badgley Publishing Company and has been transcribed from the original. The original contents have been edited and corrections have been made to original printing, spelling and grammatical errors when not in conflict with the author's intent to portray a particular event or interaction. Annotations have been made and additional contents have been added by Badgley Publishing Company in order to clarify certain historical events or interactions and to enhance the author's content. Photos and illustrations from the original have been touched up, enhanced and sometimes enlarged for better viewing. Additional illustrations and photos have been added by Badgley Publishing Company.

A Fate Worse Than Death
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 554

A Fate Worse Than Death

Captivity narratives have been a standard genre of writings about Indians of the East for several centuries.a Until now, the West has been almost entirely neglected.a Now Gregory and Susan Michno have rectified that with this painstakenly researched collection of vivid and often brutal accounts of what happened to those men and women and children that were captured by marauding Indians during the settlement of the West."

Women's Indian Captivity Narratives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

Women's Indian Captivity Narratives

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-11-01
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  • Publisher: Penguin

Enthralling generations of readers, the narrative of capture by Native Americans is arguably the first American literary form dominated by the experiences of women. The ten selections in this anthology span the early history of this country (1682-1892) and range in literary style from fact-based narrations to largely fictional, spellbinding adventure stories. The women are variously victimized, triumphant, or, in the case of Mary Jemison, permantently transculturated. This collection includes well known pieces such as Mary Rowlandson's "A True History" (1682), Cotton Mather's version of Hannah Dunstan's infamous captivity and escape (after scalping her captors!), and the "Panther Captivity",...

Indian Captivities Or Life in the Wigwam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 414

Indian Captivities Or Life in the Wigwam

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1857
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Allegories of Encounter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

Allegories of Encounter

Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with be...

Frost's Pictorial History of Indian Wars and Captivities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 788

Frost's Pictorial History of Indian Wars and Captivities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1873
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Frost's Pictorial History of Indian Wars and Captivities, from the Earliest Record of American History to the Present Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 402
Indian Captivity in Spanish America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Indian Captivity in Spanish America

Even before the arrival of Europeans to the Americas, the practice of taking captives was widespread among Native Americans. Indians took captives for many reasons: to replace--by adoption--tribal members who had been lost in battle, to use as barter for needed material goods, to use as slaves, or to use for reproductive purposes. From the legendary story of John Smith's captivity in the Virginia Colony to the wildly successful narratives of New England colonists taken captive by local Indians, the genre of the captivity narrative is well known among historians and students of early American literature. Not so for Hispanic America. Fernando Operé redresses this oversight, offering the first...