Narrative of the captivity and extreme sufferings of Mrs. Clarissa Plummer : wife of the late Mr. James Plummer, of Franklin County, state of New-York : who, with Mrs. Caroline Harris, wife of the late Mr. Richard Harris, were, in the spring of 1835, with their unfortunate families, surprised and taken prisoners by a party of the Camanche tribe of Indians, while emigrating from said Franklin County (N.Y.) to Texas : and after having been held nearly two years in captivity, and witnessed the deaths of their husbands, were fortunately redeemed from the hands of the savages by an American fur trader, a native of Georgia : Mrs. Plummer was made prisoner and held in bondage at the same time with the unfortunate Mrs. Harris, with whose narrative the public have been recently presented.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cooke, Ebenezer, copyright holder.

Perry and Cooke, publisher.

Series:

Indigenous Peoples of North America.

Indigenous Peoples of North America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plummer, Clarissa.

Harris, Caroline.

Indian captivities--Texas--Fiction.

Indian captivities.

Comanche Indians--Fiction.

Comanche Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (23 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Narrative of the captivity and extreme sufferings of Mrs. Clarissa Plummer

Place of Publication:

Perry and Cooke, publishers

Notes:

"Fictitious: a made up compilation taken partly from the story of Mrs. Horn and Mrs. Harris (no. 134) and partly from the narrative of Mrs. Rachel Plummer (no. 221) ..."--Ayer Coll. 209, describing the 1839 edition.

Copyright 1838 by Ebenezer Cooke.

Reproduction of the original from the Lost Cause Press.

OCLC:

899258611