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The Fort Stanwix Captive, Or New England Volunteer, Being The Extraordinary Life And Adventures Of Isaac Hubbell Among The Indians Of Canada And The W

The Fort Stanwix Captive, Or New England Volunteer, Being The Extraordinary Life And Adventures Of Isaac Hubbell Among The Indians Of Canada And The W

Priest, Josiah

Paperback

Historical FiguresNative American HistoryRevolutionary Period (1775-1800)

ISBN10: 9354509118
ISBN13: 9789354509117
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.08 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Taken from the edge of empire, Isaac Hubbell is carried from Fort Stanwix, New York into a world of hard choices and harder miles. A life won back, alone. Josiah Priest preserves Hubbell's voice as the Revolution turns the borderlands into a proving ground of loyalty, survival, and belonging. Part early American captivity narrative, part revolutionary war memoir, The Fort Stanwix Captive traces indian captivity and escape across the contested interior and into revolutionary era Canada, where cultures collide and daily life is negotiated at knife-point and at the hearth. It is also a frontier adventure story with uncommon emotional stakes: Hubbell's story culminates in a marriage to indian princess, offering a rare, personal angle on kinship, identity, and the costs of war. Read as an American history primary source, it carries the immediacy of lived experience rather than legend, while remaining accessible to modern readers. In the tradition of the Mary Rowlandson captivity accounts and yet distinct from the mythic sweep of Daniel Boone frontier tales, this narrative sits at the crossroads of literature and history, illuminating how ordinary people navigated upheaval on the early American frontier. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, this classic reprint edition is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure -- it presents the complete original text for casual readers, students of the past, and classic-literature collectors alike.

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