HELD CAPTIVE BY INDIANS - SELECTED NARRATIVES 1642-1836
by VanDerBeets, Richard edited by
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0870491458
- ISBN 13
- 9780870491450
- Seller
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About This Item
Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. FINE/very good. 374pp., maps, illustrations, biblio, footnotes, maroon cloth, gilt spine titles, dj price clipped with one closed tear in archival mylar.
Includes the Rachel Plummer Narrative. This first scholarly collection of 18 narratives, with the force of a distinctly American genre, becomes evident. Many captive-narrators were excellent obervers and their commentary is given on such tribes as Mohawks, Hurons, Maliseets, Penobxcots, Cherokees, Shawnees, and Comanches.
Includes the Rachel Plummer Narrative. This first scholarly collection of 18 narratives, with the force of a distinctly American genre, becomes evident. Many captive-narrators were excellent obervers and their commentary is given on such tribes as Mohawks, Hurons, Maliseets, Penobxcots, Cherokees, Shawnees, and Comanches.
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- Bookseller
- Maggie Lambeth (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16155
- Title
- HELD CAPTIVE BY INDIANS - SELECTED NARRATIVES 1642-1836
- Author
- VanDerBeets, Richard edited by
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0870491458
- ISBN 13
- 9780870491450
- Publisher
- University of Tennessee Press
- Place of Publication
- Knoxville, TN
- Date Published
- 1973
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