1443826855

9781443826853

"This volume is a compendium of the thoughts and works of authors, and of prose and scientific thought prior to the American Civil War. Featured are Maury the oceanographer; William Gilmore Simms, the author, of whom Edgar Allen Poe remarked was the best novelist America had in recent decades; the Hutchinson Family Singers whose concert tours in the U.S.A. and Britain did much to serve the cause of emancipation; the 'real' story of Davy Crockett, the American frontiersman who died with Jim Bowie at the Alamo, which is more interesting than the old fictional accounts of his life; and 'Six Days in the Moon,' a tale of an event that allegedly occurred in June 1844, by 'an Aerio-Nautical Man' who has just returned from the Moon. Also featured are contemporary composers, explorers, poets and filibusters. This book is a concise view of pre-Clvil War America."--Book jacket.

"A compendium of the lives of authors, poets, musicians, scientists and military exploration within the Antebellum era."--p. [v].

Matthew Maury

William Gilmore Simms

Mary E. Hewitt

The Hutchinson Family

David Crockett (also known as Davy Crockett)

Lydia Sigourney

Recollections of six days journey in the Moon by an aerio-nautical man

Louise Antoine Godey

John Howard Payne

Zebulon Pike

Sara Payson Willis Parton ("Fanny Fern")

Henry Timrod

Henry Clay Lewis : the swamp doctor

Edgar Allen Poe

William Walker

Phoebe Cary

Alice Cary

James Bowie

James Howard : steamboat builder

Stephen Collins Foster

Margaret Fuller

Sarah Josepha Hale

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Caroline Lee Hentz

Sarah T. Bolton.