1 Caroline Harris

History of the Captivity and Providential Release There from of Mrs. Caroline Harris. New York: Perry and Cooke, 1838.

" . . . who, with Mrs. Clarissa Plummer . . . were, in the Spring of 1835 . . . 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 there from by two of their countrymen attached to a company of Santa Fe Fur Traders."

2 Robert A. Sherrard

A Narrative of the Wonderful Escape and Dreadful Sufferings of Colonel James Paul. Cincinnati: Spiller, 1869. Printed for J. Drake.

" . . . after the defeat of Col. Crawford, when that unfortunate commander, and many of his men were inhumanly burnt at the stake, and others were slaughtered by other modes of torture known only to savages."

3 Frederic Manheim, et. al.

Affecting History of the Dreadful Distresses of Frederic Manheim's Family. Philadelphia: Printed (for Mathew Carey) by D. Humphreys, 1794.

"To which are added, the Sufferings of John Corbly's Family; An Encounter Between a White Man and Two Savages; Extraordinary Bravery of a Woman; Adventures of Capt. Isaac Stewart; Deposition of Massey Herbeson; Adventures and Sufferings of Peter Wilkinson; Remarkable Adventures of Jackson Johonnot; Account of the Destruction of the Settlements at Wyoming." The first edition of this collection of "histories" made either by deposition or by "information of persons of unexceptionable credibility" was published in Exeter in 1793. This copy lacks the frontispiece by Maverick.

4 O. M. Spencer

Indian Captivity: A True Narrative of the Capture of Rev. O.M. Spencer, by the Indians, in the Neighbourhood of Cincinnati. New York: Carleton & Porter, 1834.

5 John D. Hunter

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, to which is Added, Some Account of the Soil, Climate, and Vegetable Productions of the Territory Westward of the Mississippi. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824.

A celebrity in America for a brief moment, Hunter, on publication of his book, was bitterly attacked by Lewis Cass and such notable St. Louisans as William Clark, and Pierre Chouteau. See North American Review, Jan. 1826, pp. 94-108. Horace Kephart of the Mercantile Library even went so far as to brand the book "a rank fabrication" several generations later, so strongly was he involved in the historiography of the captivity narrative genre. Hunter was murdered in Texas shortly after his initial attempts to create a white-red buffer state, thereby incurring the enmity of Americans such as Austin and Mexican officials alike. It should be noted that George Catlin and others much later found Hunter's descriptions quite accurate.

(See Richard Drinnon's edition of Hunter, New York: 1973.) With contemporary news clippings and transcriptions of Hunter's obituary tipped in.

6 James B. Taylor

A Narrative of the Horrid Massacre by the Indians, of the Wife and Children of the Christian Hermit, A Resident of Missouri, with a Full Account of his Life and Sufferings, Never Before Published. St. Louis: Leander W. Whiting & Co., 1840.

". . . they now appeared in still greater numbers, almost daily in view of our little settlement: and the more to torment us they amused themselves by brandishing their tomahawks, and imitating the past groans of our dying friends whom they had taken prisoners, and on whom they had inflicted cruelties too horrible to relate."