An Early and Strong Sympathy: The Indian Writings of William Gilmore Simms

by Simms, William Gilmore; Guilds, John Caldwell; Hudson, Charles M.; Guilds, John Caldwell; Hudson, Charles M.; South Caroliniana Library

• ISBN13: 9781570034411
• ISBN10: 1570034419
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Portrait of William McIntosh
A Map of the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, 1857	lii
Title page of ``The Mountain Tramp. Tselica; A Legend of the French Broad''	liii
Cassique of Accabee	460
Preface	xi
William Gilmore Simms and The Portrayal of the American Indian
A Literary View	xiii
John Caldwell Guilds
An Ethnohistorical View	xxxiv
Charles Hudson
Statement of Editorial Principles	lv
Essays and Letters
``Letters from the West'' ---No. IV (12 April 1826)	5	(2)
``North American Indians'' (1828)	7	(12)
``Notes of a Small Tourist''	19	(6)
No. 6 (31 March 1831)	19	(2)
No. 7 (April 1831)	21	(2)
No. 8 (2 April 1831)	23	(2)
``Sketches of Indian Character'' ---Number One (1835)	25	(9)
``Thle-cath-cha. Being a few passages from Muscoghee History'' (1837--38)	34	(47)
``The Broken Arrow. An Authentic Passage from Unwritten American History'' (1844)	81	(18)
``Literature and Art among the American Aborigines'' (1845)	99	(26)
Letters to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
c. 26 September 1845	113	(1)
16 February 1851	114	(1)
18 March 1851	114	(1)
8 May 1851	115	(1)
10 June 1851	116	(1)
26 February 1852	117	(1)
14 April 1852	117	(1)
7 July 1852	118	(1)
Reviews of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
``History of the Indian Tribes'' (1851)	119	(1)
``Schoolcraft's American Indians'' (1852)	120	(5)
Stories
``Indian Sketch'' (1828)	125	(9)
``Legend of Missouri: or, the Captive of the Pawnee'' (1832)	134	(8)
``Logoochie; or, the Branch of Sweet Water. A Legend of Georgia'' (1835)	142	(21)
``The Cherokee Embassage'' (1835)	163	(15)
``Jocassee. A Cherokee Legend'' (1836)	178	(19)
``The Arm-Chair of Tustenuggee. A Tradition of the Catawba'' (1840)	197	(21)
``Caloya; or, the Loves of the Driver'' (1841)	218	(56)
``Oakatibbe, or, the Choctaw Sampson'' (1841)	274	(27)
``Lucas de Ayllon. A Historical Nouvellette'' (1842)	301	(37)
``The Legend of Guernache'' (1843)	338	(29)
``The Two Camps. A Legend of the Old North State'' (1843)	367	(25)
``The Narrative of Le Barbu: The Bearded Man of Calos'' (1850)	392	(22)
``Iracana, or, the Eden of the Floridian'' (1850)	414	(11)
``The Spectre Chief of Accabee'' (1852)	425	(12)
Poems
``The Broken Arrow'' (1826)	437	(2)
``The Love of Mackintosh'' (1826)	439	(1)
``The Last of the Yemassees'' (1827)	440	(2)
``The Green Corn Dance'' (1827)	442	(2)
``Mighty is the Yemassee'' (1829)	444	(1)
[``I was a wanderer long...''] (1833)	444	(4)
``The `Coonee-Latee,' or, `Trick-Tongue''' (1835)	448	(1)
[``The arrows---''] (1835)	449	(1)
[``Let the Yemassee have ears''] (1835)	450	(1)
[``What is the Seratee?''] (1835)	450	(1)
[``Hear, Opitchi-Manneyto''] (1835)	451	(1)
[``I take from thee the earth of Yemassee---''] (1835)	452	(1)
[``Sangarrah-me, Yemassee''] (1835)	452	(1)
``The Widow of the Chief'' (1835)	452	(3)
``The Indian Village'' (1837)	455	(3)
``Indian Serenade'' (1846)	458	(3)
``The Cassique of Accabee; A Legend of Ashley River'' (1849)	461	(20)
``The Last Fields of the Biloxi; A Tradition of Louisiana'' (1853)	481	(12)
``Indians Spearing Salmon'' (1858)	493	(1)
``Thlecathcha; or, the Broken Arrow'' (1868)	494	(6)
``The Mountain Tramp. Tselica; A Legend of the French Broad'' (unpublished manuscript)	500	(93)
Appendix 1
Chart: Native Americans in the Writings of William Gilmore Simms	573	(16)
Glossary of Native American Entities	581	(4)
Cultural, Social, and Local Groups	585	(2)
Names of Indian Characters	587	(2)
Appendix 2
Emendations in the Text	589	(4)
Bibliography of the Indian Writings of William Gilmore Simms	593	(10)
Index of Titles	603