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  • Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America

    by John Dunn Hunter ...
    "Captured by Kickapoo warriors in 1797, Hunter was held for several years by that tribe before being seized by Kansas Indians during a battle." - Handbook of the American Frontier (1987)"Having formed acquaintance with fur traders, he abandoned his Indian life in 1816 and engaged in trading." - Hubert Howe Bancroft"John Dunn Hunter's eventful and controversial life deserves revival." -KIRKUS ... Read more

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    John Tanner's fascinating autobiography tells the story of a man torn between white society and the Native Americans with whom he identified.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and ... Read more

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  • A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

    by James E. Seaver ...
    Mary Jemison was one of the most famous white captives who, after being captured by Indians, chose to stay and live among her captors. In the midst of the Seven Years War(1758), at about age fifteen, Jemison was taken from her western Pennsylvania home by a Shawnee and French raiding party. Her family was killed, but Mary was traded to two Seneca sisters who adopted her to replace a slain brother. ... Read more

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  • Dakota Life In the Upper Midwest

    by Samuel W. Pond ...
    In 1834 Samuel W. Pond and his brother Gideon built a cabin near Cloud Man's village of the Dakota Indians on the shore of Lake Calhoun—now present-day Minneapolis—intending to preach Christianity to the Indians. The brothers were to spend nearly twenty years learning the Dakota language and observing how the Indians lived.In the 1860s and 1870s, after the Dakota had fought a disastrous war with ... Read more

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  • My Captivity

    A Pioneer Woman's Story of Her Life Among the Sioux

    by Fanny Kelly ...
    Fanny Kelly’s memoir, first published in 1872, is an intelligent and thoughtful narrative. Kelly spent five months as a prisoner of Ogalalla Sioux in 1864 when she was nineteen years old. A woman of her time, there was no reason she should feel sympathy toward her captors, but the introduction points out examples of expressed favor toward the Sioux, however unconscious. This narrative is a ... Read more

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  • The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation

    by George Copway, Shelley Hulan ...
    Series series Early Canadian Literature
    The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation (1850) was one of the first books of Indigenous history written by an Indigenous author. The book blends nature writing and narrative to describe the language, religious beliefs, stories, land, work, and play of the Ojibway people. Shelley Hulan's afterword considers Copway's rhetorical strategies in framing a narrative—she ... Read more

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  • Captivity of the Oatman Girls: Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians

    by Royal B. Stratton ...
    The 9th of August, 1850, was a lovely day. The sun had looked upon the beautiful plains surrounding Independence, Missouri, with a full, unclouded face, for thirteen hours of that day; when, standing about four miles south of westward from the throbbing city of Independence, alive with the influx and efflux of emigrant men and women, the reader, could he have occupied that stand, might have seen, ... Read more

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  • Captivity of the Oatman Girls

    Being an Interesting Narrative of Life among the Apache and Mohave Indians

    by Royal B. Stratton ...
    A dramatic true story of captivity on the American frontier.In 1851, on route to California in a covered wagon, the Oatman family was brutally attacked by Apache Indians. Six family members were murdered on sight, one boy was left for dead, who escaped afterward, and two young girls, Mary Ann and Olive, were taken captive.Mary Ann, the younger of the two girls, died of starvation in 1852. Olive, ... Read more

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  • Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 1

    by George Catlin ...
    George Catlin's "Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, & Condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 1" is a remarkable work that captures the essence of Native American life through vivid illustrations and detailed descriptions. Catlin, an artist and explorer, traveled extensively across North America, documenting the diverse cultures and traditions of various tribes. His passion for ... Read more

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  • The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians (Illustrated)

    by James P. Beckwourth ...
    James Pierson Beckwourth (1798 or 1800 – 1866 or 1867), born James Beckwith and generally known as, Jim Beckwourth was an American mountain man, fur trader, and explorer. A mulatto born into slavery in Virginia, he was freed by his father (and master) and apprenticed to a blacksmith; later he moved to the American West. As a fur trapper, he lived with the Crow Nation for years. He is credited with ... Read more

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  • Strategy Six Pack 13 (Illustrated)

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    “Give me liberty or give me death!”- Patrick Henry.Strategy Six Pack 13 includes Thomas De Quincey’s classic study of Rome’s first leaders, The Caesars, two essays by Elbert Hubbard (on Patrick Henry and Anne Hutchinson), Memoirs of an Arabian Princess from Zanzibar by Emily Ruete and two American history classics, My Sixty Years on the Plains - Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting by William ... Read more

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  • The Journey to the Polar Sea

    by John Franklin ...
    JOHN FRANKLIN, born in 1786. Many naval experiences, including Trafalgar, before heading an expedition across northern Canada in 1819. Elected F.R.S. and knighted after a second expedition. Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land, 1836 to 1843. Last expedition, 1845, was lost, and Franklin died in 1847 near the Arctic. Subsequent investigations have established him as the discoverer of the North ... Read more

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