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An account of the remarkable occurrences in the life and travels of Col. James Smith, (now a citizen of Bourbon County, Kentucky) during his captivity with the Indians, in the years 1755, '56, '57, '58, & '59, in which the customs, manners, traditions, theological sentiments, mode of warfare, military tactics, discipline and encampments, treatment of prisoners, &c. are better explained, and more minutely related, than has been heretofore done, by any author on that subject. Together with a description of the soil, timber and waters, where he travelled with the Indians, during his captivity. : To which is added, a brief account of some very uncommon occurrences, which transpired after his return from captivity; as well as of the different campaigns carried on against the Indians to the westward of Fort Pitt, since the year 1755, to the present date
Author
Smith, James, 1737-1812
Published
Lexington [Ky.]: : Printed by John Bradford, on Main Street., 1799.
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A narrative of the capture of certain Americans, at Westmoreland, by savages; and the perilous escape which they effected, by surprizing specimens of policy and heroism. : To which is subjoined, some account of the religion, government, customs, and manners of the aborigines of North-America
Author
Van Campen, Moses, 1757-1849
Published
New-London [Conn.]: : Printed by T. Green., 1784.
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A narrative of the capture of certain Americans, at Westmorland, by savages; and the perilous escape which they effected, by surprizing specimens of policy and heroism. To which is subjoined, some account of the religion, government, customs and manners of the aborigines of North-America
Author
Van Campen, Moses, 1757-1849
Published
Hartford: : Printed and sold [by Barzillai Hudson and George Goodwin] near the bridge., [1780?]
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Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America, from childhood to the age of nineteen: with anecdotes descriptive of their manners and customs
Author
Hunter, John Dunn, 1798?-1827
Published
London, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824.
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Memoirs of Charles Dennis Rusoe D'Eres, a native of Canada; who was with the Scanyawtauragahrooote Indians eleven years, with a particular account of his sufferings, &c. during his tarry with them, and his safe return to his family connections in Canada; : to which is added an appendix, containing a brief account of their persons, dress, manners, reckoning time, mode of government, &c. Feasts, dances, hunting, weapons of war, &c. Making peace, diversions, courtship, marriage, religious tenets, mode of worship, diseases, method of cure, burying their dead, character of the Scanyawtauragahrooote Indians, particular description of the quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects, which are to be met with on and in the vicinity of Scanyawtauragahrooote Island. : Copy right secured
Author
Rusoe D'Eres, Charles Dennis, b. 1761
Published
[Exeter, N.H.] : Printed for, and sold by Henry Ranlet, Exeter., 1800.
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An account of the remarkable occurrences in the life and travels of Col. James Smith, (now a citizen of Bourbon County, Kentucky,) during his captivity with the Indians, in the years 1755, '56, '57, '58, & '59, : in which the customs, manners, traditions, theological sentiments, mode of warfare, military tactics, discipline and encampments, treatment of prisoners, &c. are better explained, and more minutely related, than has been heretofore done, by any author on that subject. Together with a description of the soil, timber and waters, where he travelled with the Indians, during his captivity. To which is added, a brief account of some very uncommon occurrences, which transpired after his return from captivity; as well as of the different campaigns carried on against the Indians to the westward of Fort Pitt, since the year 1755, to the present date
Author
Smith, James, 1737-1813
Published
Lexington: : Printed by John Bradford, on Main Street, 1799.
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7.
The voyages, dangerous adventures and imminent escapes of Captain Richard Falconer: containing the laws, customs, and manners of the Indians in America; his shipwrecks; his marrying an Indian wife; his narrow escape from the island of Dominico, &c. : intermix'd with the voyages and adventures of Thomas Randal, of Cork, pilot; with his shipwreck in the Baltick, being the only man that escap'd; his being taken by the Indians of Virginia, &c.
Author
Chetwood, W. R. (William Rufus), -1766
Published
London : Printed for W. Chetwood, at Cato's Head, in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden; T. Jauncy, at the Angel without Temple-Bar; A. Bettesworth, in Pater-Noster-Row; J. Brotherton, W. Meadows in Cornhill; and J. Graves, in St. James's-Street, 1720.
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BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating) >> PR3346.C3 V69 1720
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Deh-he-wa-mis: or, A narrative of the life of Mary Jemison, otherwise called the white woman, who was taken captive by the Indians in MDCCLV; and who continued with them seventy eight years. : Containing an account of the murder of her father and his family; her marriages and sufferings; Indian barbarities, customs and traditions
Author
Seaver, James E. (James Everett), 1787-1827
Published
Batavia, N.Y. : Published by William Seaver and Son, 1842.
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