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In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American writing, the "West," which comprised the territory between the Appalachian mountains and the Mississippi River, was a ubiquitous topic. Yet this writing is often overlooked in studies of the American West, which reach past this region to the Far Western frontier, and in analyses of whites and Native Americans, which typically focus on moments of contact. Tracing historic events in the early westward movement, The First West: Writing from the American Frontier 1776-1860 brings together a unique and extensive range of writers and texts. Many of the texts produced in and about this "first West" have not been reprinted until now. The book's selections include government documents and treaties, land-promotion schemes, white depictions of natives, native accounts of whites, easterners describing westerners, westerners describing easterners, and literary texts. Several selections concern contact and conquest, while others focus on community building in the wake of westward-moving white settlement. The volume includes literary and nonliterary writing from such well-known figures as Thomas Jefferson, William Bartram, Margaret Fuller, Black Hawk, Caroline Kirkland, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, and Abraham Lincoln. It also features writing from lesser-known individuals including William Warren, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Rebecca Burlend, Daniel Drake, Eliza Farnham, and Gideon Lincecum. Demonstrating a strikingly vital interracial, interregional, and intercultural dialogue, The First West illustrates the continuing diversification of American cultural history. An exceptional text for courses in American literature and history, it challenges students' ideas about the American frontier, the West, and the processes of contact, settlement, community, and class.
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Writing about the American frontier has long enjoyed popular interdisciplinary status, and this book reveals that heterogeneity. During the years spanned by this anthology, the "West" encompassed much that is today considered "East" or "South." Watts (American thought, Michigan State Univ.) and Rachels (Virginia Military Institute) selected for inclusion historical records, biographies, treaties, speeches, poetry, and fiction--all in one way or another characterizing the "west" during the period covered, westernness that has ramified into popular culture. The notion that writing about the West has often been deemed the province of white males gets ample contrary testimony in selections from Native American, African American, and women writers. Also included are several time-honored humorists of the "Old South" and the Southwest--e.g., Thompson, Paulding, Thorpe--who were not from those regions but were Yankees by birth and, often, in outlook. This reviewer wonders why Sut Lovingood, created by Pennsylvanian-turned-Tennesseean G.W. Harris, is not represented; why Edgar Watson Howe's name appears as Edward Watson Howe; and why F.W. Thomas gets scanted, in selections and in commentary, when renowned writers like Gallagher and others have praised him as a western writer. For large academic and public libraries collecting "western" literature at all levels. B. F. Fisher University of Mississippi
目录
Thematic Contents |
Maps |
Introduction |
1 J. Hector St.John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) |
From Letters from an American Farmer (1782) |
2 William Bartram (1739-1823) |
From Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida |
The Cherokee Country |
The Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws (1791) |
3 Manasseh Cutler (1742-1823) |
An Explanation of the Map of Federal Lands (1787) |
4 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) |
Report of a Plan of Government for the Western Territory (1784) |
Letter to John Breckenridge (1803) |
5 John Filson (c. 1747-1788)Daniel Boone (1734-1820) |
From The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke: And an Essay |
Toward the Topography, and Natural History of That Important Country (1784) |
The Adventures of Col.Daniel Boon (1784) |
6 George Rogers Clarke (1752-1818) |
From The Conquest of the Illinois (1788) |
7 Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748-1816) |
The Trial of Mamachtaga (1785;1806;1808) |
From Incidents of the Insurrection (1795) |
8 Dr. John Knight (?-1838) |
The Narrative ofDr. Knight (1783) |
9 The Northwest Ordinance (1787) |
10 Gilbert Imlay (c. 1754?-1828?) |
From The Emigrants (1793) |
11 Selected Treaties between the United States and Native American Tribes |
Treaty with the Cherokee (1791) |
Treaty of Greenville (1795) |
Treaty ofSt. Louis (1804) |
Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1829) |
12 Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809)William Clark (1770-1838) |
From Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 |
13 Black Hawk (Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak) (1767-1838) |
From The Life of Black Hawk (1833) |
14 Zadok Cramer (1773-1813) |
From The Navigator (1814) |
15 James Kirke Paulding (1778-1860) |
From The Backwoodsman (1818) |
16 Charles Ball (1781-?) |
From Slavery in the United States: A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man (1837) |
17 Timothy Flint (1780-1840) |
From Recollections of the Last Ten Years in the Valley of the Mississippi (1826) |
The Indian Fighter (1830) |
Nimrod Buckskin, Esq. (1832) |
18 John Tanner (1780-1847) |
From A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner (1830) |
19 Robert Breckinridge McAfee (1784-1849) |
From History of the Late War in the Western Country (1816) |
20 John James Audubon (1785-1851) |
The Prairie (1831) |
Kentucky Sports (1831) |
Colonel Boon (1831) |
The Squatters of the Mississippi (1833) |
21 Minor Native Voices |
Tecumseh (1771-1813), Speech at Malden (1813) |
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1841), Otagamiad (1827) |
George W. Harkins (?-?), Farewell Letter to the American People (1832) |
22 Daniel Drake (1785-1852) |
Remarks on the Importance of Promoting Literary and Social Concert in the Valley of the Mississippi (1833) |
Discourse on the History, Character, and Prospects of the West (1834) |
23 Henry Marie Brackenridge (1786-1871) |
From Views of Louisiana (1814) |
24 Lydia B. Bacon (1786-1853) |
From Biography ofMrs. Lydia B. Bacon (1811-1812, 1856) |
25 David Crockett (1786-1836) |
From A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett (1834) |
26 James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) |
From The Prairie (1827) |
27 Daniel Bryan (c. 1790-1866) |
From The Adventures of Daniel Boone (1813) |
28 Augus |