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Frost's pictorial history of Indian wars and captivities : from the earliest record of American history to the present time

John Frost · 1872 · Scanned text · Free in the US

178,178 words · about 12 h 29 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PD-US · Published 1872 (before 1884; date from the PleIAs English-PD record). The dataset curator states the whole collection is public domain in all regions (curator assertion, not independently verified); treated as public domain in the US.

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About this book

Author
John Frost
Language
English
Published
1872
Length
178,178 words · about 12 h 29 min
Sections
5 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (5)
  1. Front matter about 7 min
  2. Contents about 2 h 12 min
  3. I. 72 Elizabeth Heard’s Captivity about 1 h 15 min
  4. Appendix about 8 h 42 min
  5. Index about 13 min

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Front matter

INDIAN CAPTIVITIES

LIFE IN THE WIGWAM;

ERUE NARRATIVES OP CAPTIVES WHO HAVE BEEN CARRIED AWA’B BY THE INDIANS, FROM THE FRONTIER SETTLEMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME.

Contents

The following Table contains the names of the captives, the time of their being taken, and the duration of their captivity, where the dates could be ascertained.

Name of Captive.

| When taken. | Where.

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