The Wigwam and the Cabin

by Simms, William Gilmore; Guilds, John Caldwell

• ISBN13: 9781557286246
• ISBN10: 1557286248
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr

Summary

Praised by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, The Wigwam and the Cabin focuses on the Southern frontier that Simms knew so well, a frontier whose vernacular, courage, humor, folklore, violence, injustice, and beauty are vividly brought to life through the strokes of his pen. "I have seen the life", Simms wrote", -- have lived it -- and much of my material...is the planter, the squatter, the Indian, the negro -- the bold and hardy pioneer, the vigorous yeomen -- these are the subjects".

Simms's portrayal of frontier life is the more realistic and graphic in all nineteenth-century American literature; and the Arkansas edition of The Wigwam and the Cabin, with Dr. Guilds's fine editing and informative introduction brings back into print an invaluable contribution to the development of the short story in America.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Arkansas Edition	xi
William Gilmore Simms Chronology	xiii
Introduction	xvii
Reproduction of Front Matter of 1856 Redfield Edition Title Page	xxix
Table of Contents	xxxi
To Nash Roach, Esq., of South Carolina	xxxiii
Text of The Wigwam and the Cabin	1	(380)
Afterword: Commentary on Each Story	381	(18)
Appendices	399	(2)
Explanatory Notes	401	(8)
Textual Notes	409	(2)
Select Bibliography	411