Indians and Their Captives

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• ILLUSTRATIONSACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONPART ONE THE DISCOVERY OF THE INDIANA Spaniard Among Florida IndiansFrom Samuel Gardner Drake, Indian Captivities … (1839), first published in the True Relation of the Gentleman of Elvas … (1557)Captain John Smith Meets the Princess PocahontasFrom Captain John Smith, The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles … (1624)PART TWO TRIALS OF THE SPIRITA Letter from a Jesuit in New FranceFrom John Dawson Gilmary Shea, Perils of the Ocean and Wilderness … (1857), first published under the title Breve Relatione d'Alcune Missioni … (1653)A Sermon on the Deliverance of a Puritan WomanFrom Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana … (1702), first published by Mather in Humiliations Follow'd with Deliverances … (1697)A Quaker Journal Records God's Protecting ProvidenceFrom Jonathan Dickinson, God's Protecting Providence … (1699)PART THREE THE LAND IMPERATIVEA Puritan Minister Describes French Savagery and TreacheryFrom John Norton, The Redeemed Captive … (1748)An Indian Trader Held by the BritishFrom A Narrative of the Capture and Treatment of John Dodge … (1779)The Captive as Naturalist, Anthropologist, and PlagiaristFrom the Memoirs of Charles Dennis Rousoe d'Eres … (1800)An Almanac Promotes Colonization in the Old Southwest"A True and Faithful Narrative of the Captivity and Travels of Capt. Isaac Stewart …" from Bickerstaff's Genuine Boston Almanack for 1787Faked Atrocity StoriesAn Affecting Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Mary Smith … (1818)"War! War!! War!!! Women and Children Butchered!"From the Narrative of the Capture and Providential Escape of Misses Frances and Almira Hall … (1832)A Propaganda Broadside During the Second Seminole War"Captivity and Sufferings of Mrs. Mason, with an Account of the Massacre of Her Youngest Child" (c. 1836)Attack on a Wagon TrainFrom Fanny Kelly, Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians … (1871)An Indian IdyllFrom Edwin James, A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner … (1830)"She Lov'd the Indian Style of Life"From James Seaver, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary jemison … (1824); and Gordon M. Fisk, Story of the Female Captive … (1844)A White Savage: "I Kill My First Man"From Jonathan H. Jones, Indianology (1899)PART FOUR BEHIND THE FRONTIERAn Antiquarian Records an Incident in the Deerfield MassacreFrom Elihu Hoyt, A Brief Sketch of the First Settlement of Deerfield … (1833)Washington Irving on John Colter's RaceFrom Irving, Astoria, or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains (1836)George Bancroft on the MacCrea AbductionFrom Bancroft, History of the United States … (1834–1885)Francis Parkman on the Conspiracy of PontiacFrom Parkman, The Conspiracy of Pontiac (1870), first published in 1851Henry David Thoreau on Hannah Duston's CaptivityFrom Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)The Legend of Murderer's CreekFrom McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Third Reader (1846)The Ballad of "The White Captive""The White Captive" from Helen Flanders, Elizabeth Ballard, et al., New Green Mountain Songster (1939); and "Bright Amanda" from Lester A. Hubbard, Ballads and Songs from Utah (1961)Folktales About the Escapes of Tim MurphyFrom Harold Thompson File, New York State Historical Society; and Emelyn Gardner, "Folk-Lore from Schoharie County, New York," Journal of American Folklore (1914)Daniel Boone and the IndiansFrom John Filson, "The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon" in The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke (1784); and Timothy Flint, Biographical Memoir of Daniel Boone (1833)The Christian HermitFrom the Narrative of the Massacre, by the Savages, of the Wife and Children of Thomas Baldwin … (1836)Sal Fink: "How She Cooked Injuns""Sal Fink, the Mississippi Screamer" from Crockett's Almanac for 1854MOCCASIN BILL, a Dime NovelFrom Paul Bibbs, Moccasin Bill; or, Cunning Serpent the Ojibwah, a Romance of Big Stone Lake (1873)A Cowboy Captured by IndiansFrom The Life and Adventures of Nat Love … (1907)PART FIVE BEYOND THE FRONTIERThe Frontiers of FantasyFrom A Surprising Account, of the Captivity and Escape of Philip M'Donald, and Alexander M'Leod, of Virginia … (1786)The Pocahontas PlaysFrom James Nelson Barker, The Indian Princess; or, La Belle Sauvage (1808)YAMOYDEN, a Narrative PoemFrom James W. Eastburn and Robert C. Sands, Yamoyden, a Tale of the Wars of King Philip … (1820)Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Duston Family"From The American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge (May 1836)The Captivity of the Munro Sisters from James Fenimore Cooper's THE LAST OF THE MOHICANSFrom Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (1826)Thomas Cole Paints the Death of CoraCole, detail from "A Scene from The Last of the Mohicans" (1827)An Indian's Love Lyric"The Stolen White Girl" from John Rollin Ridge, Poems (1868)Erastus Dow Palmer Captures a White Captive in MarblePalmer, "White Captive" (1858); and "Palmer's 'White Captive,'" Atlantic Monthly (January 1860)"The Escape" from Herman Melville's TYPEEFrom Melville, Typee, a Peep at Polynesian Life (1846)BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTEINDEX