History of the captivity and providential release therefrom of Mrs. Caroline Harris, wife of the late Mr. Richard Harris, of Franklin County, state of New-York : who, with Mrs. Clarissa Plummer, wife of Mr. James Plummer, were, in the spring of 1835, (with their unfortunate husbands,) taken prisoners by the Camanche tribe of Indians, while emigrating from said Franklin County (N.Y.) to Texas, and after having been made to witness the tragical deaths of their husbands, and held nearly two years in bondage, were providentially redeemed therefrom by two of their countrymen attached to a company of Santa Fe fur traders ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cooke, Ebenezer, copyright holder.

Perry and Cooke, publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harris, Caroline, active 1838.

Harris, Caroline.

Indian captivities--Texas--Fiction.

Indian captivities.

Comanche Indians--Fiction.

Comanche Indians.

Texas.

Genre:

Fiction.

Relief prints.

Captivity narratives.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

23 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New-York : Perry and Cooke, publishers, 1838.

Notes:

"It was the misfortune of Mrs. Harris, and her unfortunate female companion (soon after the deaths of their husbands,) to be separated by, and compelled to become the companions of, and to cohabit with, two disgusting Indian chiefs, and from whom they received the most cruel and beastly treatment."

"The Caroline Harris and Clarissa Plummer narratives have every appearance of being fiction ..."--Streeter, T.W. Bibliography of Texas, 1312a.

Copyright 1838 by Ebenezer Cooke. Cf. t.p. verso.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy has several largely illegible early ms. inscriptions in brown ink on cover; illegible early ms. inscription in brown ink at foot of title leaf.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy housed in slip case with bookseller's description of another edition of this work.

Schimmel Collection copy has hole in tail margin of p. 19-[24].

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints 50730

OCLC:

191243353