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The Rachel Plummer narrative; a stirring narrative of adventure, hardship and privation in the early days of Texas / depicting struggles with the Indians and other adventures.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dechert Collection AC8 P2262 844n 1926
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, James W., 1797-1864.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian captivities.
- Comanche Indians.
- Parker's Fort (Tex.).
- Texas--Description and travel.
- Texas.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dechert, Robert (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 118 pages : illustrations (portraits) ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Palestine, Tex.], [publisher not identified], [1926]
- Notes:
- This publication begins with "chapter II", the first 10 pages of the original having been torn and destroyed. cf. Foreword.
- Published 1844 under title: Narrative of the perilous adventures, miraculous escapes and sufferings of Rev. James W. Parker ... with an impartial geographical description of ... Texas; written by himself. To which is appended a Narrative of the capture and subsequent sufferings of Mrs. Rachel Plummer ... written by herself.
- "Narrative of the capture and subsequent sufferings of Mrs. Rachel Plummer during a captivity of twenty-one months among the Comanche Indians: with a sketch of their manners, customs, laws, &c., &.; with a short description of the country over which she traveled whilst with the Indians. Written by herself. [2d ed.] 1839": p. [89]-117.
- OCLC:
- 1209899
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