Payne Reported (2 results)

Softcover / Paperback. Condition: Fine. 3rd edition. Softcover. Foreword by Rennard Strickland. Grant Foreman presents John Howard Payne's first-hand account of the trial of Archilla Smith, a Cherokee charged with the murder of John MacIntosh in the fall of 1839. The Cherokee Supreme Court at Tahlequah (in present-day Oklahoma) found Smith guilty and sentenced him to die. Occurring immediately after the Cherokee Removal to west of the Mississippi River, the trial involved people on both sides of the bitter factional controversies then raging in the Cherokee nation. Payne's account of this important Indian case first appeared in two installments in the 'New York Journal of Commerce' in 1841. In his Foreword to this new edition, Rennard Strickland places the case in historical and contemporary context, exploring the evolution of tribal court systems and Indian justice over the past century and a half. Illus. + Index. 112pp. softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Included. First Thus. This edition follows the 1934 first edition, and the copyright is held by Carolyn Thomas (Mrs. Grant) Foreman, who signed this book on the front endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Page edges and andpapers are a little dusty and spotted. The jacket spine is sunned, and there is a little wear at the edges. Includes a frontispiece portrait of Payne and four other illustrations, and an index;112 pages. Signed by Editor's Wife.