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Indian Captivities Or, Life In The Wigwam; Being True Narratives Of Captives Who Have Been Carried Away By The Indians; From The Frontier Settlements

Indian Captivities Or, Life In The Wigwam; Being True Narratives Of Captives Who Have Been Carried Away By The Indians; From The Frontier Settlements

Gardner Drake, Samuel

Paperback

Native American History19th Century United States HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 9354504329
ISBN13: 9789354504327
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 22 2021
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On the colonial edge of America, a single moment could turn a homestead into a trail of forced march. These voices still speak today. Samuel Gardner Drake gathers a captivity narrative anthology drawn from early newspapers, sermons, memoirs, and local records, shaping a historical nonfiction collection of primary source accounts that traces native american captivity stories from the colonial new england frontier to the early united states frontier. Here are stark records of colonial frontier survival: families taken in indian raids and warfare, journeys through winter woods, bargaining, adoption, escape, and return, as communities tried to understand cultures in collision. Readers of the mary rowlandson narrative will recognise the tradition, while finding a wider indian captivities collection that reveals regional patterns and the changing logic of frontier conflict. Names, places, and dates anchor the human drama. Long used in american history research, Drake's compilation stands as a landmark of nineteenth-century antiquarian scholarship, preserving testimonies that later histories often paraphrased or softened. Read with an alert mind to period bias, it illuminates how fear, faith, and rumour shaped public memory. It is equally compelling for the casual reader who wants unvarnished experience and for classic-literature collectors who value the texture of early print. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike, and a rich resource for genealogy and local history, for libraries and personal shelves.

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