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, ... of 1835, with Their Unfortunate Families, ... - Softcover

Plummer, Rachael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1275740669 ISBN 13: 9781275740662

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012

Synopsis

Title: 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 ... 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 ... 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.

Author: Rachael Plummer

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana

Description:

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.

Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.

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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP02643100

CollectionID: CTRG98-B2071

PublicationDate: 18380101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America

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.

Collation: 23 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm

About this edition

• Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1275740669
• ISBN 13: 9781275740662
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 26