Research Catalog

Title

An early and strong sympathy : the Indian writings of William Gilmore Simms / edited by John Caldwell Guilds and Charles Hudson.

Author

Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870.

Publication

Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press for the South Caroliniana Library with the assistance of the Caroline McKissick Dial Publication Fund and the University Caroliniana Society, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Guilds, John Caldwell, 1924-
• Hudson, Charles M.
• South Caroliniana Library.

Description

li, 604 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Subject

• Indians of North America > Literary collections
• Indians of North America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• William Gilmore Simms and the Portrayal of the American Indian -- Essays and Letters -- "Letters from the West" - No. IV (12 April 1826) -- "North American Indians -- "North of a Small Tourist" -- No. 6 (31 March 1831) -- No. 7 (April 1831) -- No. 8 (2 April 1831) -- "Sketches of Indian Character" - Number One -- "Thle-cath-cha. Being a few passages from Muscoghee History" -- "The Broken Arrow. An Authentic Passage from Unwritten American History" -- "Literature and Art among the American Aborigines" -- Letters to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft -- Reviews of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft -- Stories -- "Indian Sketch" -- "Legend of Missouri: or, the Captive of the Pawnee" -- "Logoochie; or, the Branch of Sweet Water. A Legend of Georgia" -- "The Cherokee Embassage" -- "Jocassee. A Cherokee Legend" -- "The Arm-Chair of Tustenuggee. A Tradition of the Catawba" -- "Caloya: or, the Loves of the Driver" -- "Oakatibbe, or, the Choctaw Sampson" --
• "Lucas de Ayllon. A Historical Nouvellette" -- "The Legend of Guernache" -- "The Two Camps. A Legend of the Old North State" -- "The Narrative of Le Barbu: The Bearded Man of Calos" -- "Iracana, or, the Eden of the Floridian" -- "The Spectre Chief of Accabee" -- Poems -- "The Broken Arrow" -- "The Love of Mackintosh" -- "The Last of the Yemassees" -- "The Green Corn Dance" -- "Mighty is the Yemassee" -- ["I was a wanderer long ..."] -- "The 'Coonee-Latee,' or, 'Trick-Tongue'" -- ["The arrows -"] -- ["Let the Yemassee have ears"] -- ["What is the Seratee?"] -- ["Hear, Opitchi-Manneyto"] -- ["I take from thee the earth of Yemassee -"] -- ["Sangarrah-me, Yemassee"] -- "The Widow of the Chief" -- "The Indian Village" -- "Indian Serenade" -- "The Cassique of Accabee; A Legend of Ashley River" -- "The Last Fields of the Biloxi; A Tradition of Louisiana" -- "Indians Spearing Salmon" -- "Thlecathcha; or, the Broken Arrow" --
• "The Mountain Tramp. Tselica; A Legend of the French Broad" (unpublished manuscript) -- App. 1. Chart: Native Americans in the Writings of William Gilmore Simms -- App. 2. Emendations in the Text -- Bibliography of the Indian Writings of William Gilmore Simms.

ISBN

1570034419 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002001044

OCLC

• ocm48892392
• SCSB-4338122

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries