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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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  • Dakota Life In the Upper Midwest

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    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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  • Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

    by Anna Brownell Jameson, Clara Thomas ...
    Series series New Canadian Library
    In 1836, Anna Jameson sailed from London, England, to join her husband in Upper Canada, where he was serving as attorney general. Shaking off the mud of Muddy York with mild disdain, young Mrs. Jameson swiftly sallied forth to discover the New World for herself.The best known of all nineteenth century Canadian travel books, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada is Jameson’s wonderfully ... Read more

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  • The Washington Irving Anthology

    The Complete Fiction and Collected Non-Fictional Works

    by Washington Irving ...
    Series series Bybliotech Classic Fiction
    Washington Irving sits atop the American literary canon alongside Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe. Indeed he was the first truly international American writer to achieve acclaim around the world as well as at home, and to make his living exclusively as a man of letters. His most famous stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", and "Rip Van Winkle" are literary masterpieces that have stood the test of ... Read more

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  • Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 2)

    Exploring the Cultural Tapestry of North American Indigenous Peoples

    by George Catlin ...
    In "Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, & Condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 1," George Catlin provides a profound visual and textual record of indigenous cultures in the early 19th century. Through a unique blend of detailed illustrations and descriptive narratives, Catlin presents a panoramic view of the diverse tribes, rituals, and lifestyles he encountered during his travels ... Read more

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  • James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales Vol. 2 (LOA #27)

    The Pathfinder / The Deerslayer

    by James Fenimore Cooper ...
    Series Book 2 - Library of America James Fenimore Cooper Edition
    When Cooper's most memorable hero, Leatherstocking, started an American tradition by setting off into the sunset in The Pioneers, one early reader said of his departure, "I longed to go with him."American readers couldn't get enough of the Leatherstocking saga (collected in two Library of America volumes) and, fourteen years after he portrayed the death of Natty Bumppo in The Prairie, Cooper ... Read more

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  • The Revenant

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    by Philip St. George Cooke ...
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  • The Prairie

    by James Fenimore Cooper ...
    A superb novel filled with excitement and thrill. First published in 1827 it follows the adventures of Natty Bumppo and Dr. Bat the latter of whom spends his time in discovering new animals and plants in the prairie. The book subtly highlights various issues of that era like the annihilation of nature and dislocation of American Indians. It provides pure reading pleasure through its vibrant ... Read more

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  • Early American Classics

    The Last of the Mohicans, The Scarlet Letter and Others

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    Experience the beginning of American literature with these classic stories from authors such as James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe. Early American Classics includes: The Scarlet Letter, The Last of the Mohicans, “Rip Van Winkle,” “Young Goodman Brown,” “Bartleby the Scrivener,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.”HarperPerennial Classics brings ... Read more

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