The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories (Broadview Editions) NEUF 2024

Product Name: The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories (Broadview Editions) NEUF 2024
EAN：9781554811205 UPC：9781554811205 ISBN：9781554811205 2024 MPN：N/A Format：Paperback, 300 pages
This edition recovers Elizabeth Oakes Smiths successful 1842 novel The Western Captive; or, The Times of Tecumseh with many of Oakes Smiths other writings about Native Americans, including short stories, legends, autobiographical and biographical sketches. The Western Captive is a captivity narrative portraying the Shawnee leader as an American hero and as the white heroines spiritual soulmate; in contrast to the later popular legend of Tecumsehs rejected marriage proposal to a white woman, Margaret, the "captive" of the title, returns Tecumsehs love and embraces life apart from white society.

these texts are accompanied by selections from Oakes Smiths Woman and Her Needs and her unpublished autobiography, from contemporary captivity narratives and biographies of William Henry Harrison depicting the Shawnee, and from writings by her colleagues Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft..