This edition recovers Elizabeth Oakes Smith's successful 1842 novel The Western Captive; or, The Times of Tecumseh with many of Oakes Smith's other writings about Native Americans, including short stories, legends, autobiographical and biographical sketches. The Western Captive is a captivity narrative portraying the Shawnee leader as an American hero and as the white heroine's spiritual soulmate; in contrast to the later popular legend of Tecumseh's rejected marriage proposal to a white woman, Margaret, the "captive" of the title, returns Tecumseh's love and embraces life apart from white society. these texts are accompanied by selections from Oakes Smith's Woman and Her Needs and her unpublished autobiography, from contemporary captivity narratives and biographies of William Henry Harrison depicting the Shawnee, and from writings by her colleagues Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.

Book Information
ISBN 9781554811205
Author Elizabeth Oakes Smith
Format Paperback
Page Count 300
Imprint Broadview Press Ltd
Publisher Broadview Press Ltd