{"product_id":"9781554811205","title":"The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis edition recovers Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s successful 1842 novel \u003cb\u003eThe Western Captive; or, The Times of Tecumseh\u003c\/b\u003e and includes many of Oakes Smith’s other writings about Native Americans, including short stories, legends, and autobiographical and biographical sketches. \u003cb\u003eThe Western Captive\u003c\/b\u003e portrays the Shawnee leader as an American hero and the white heroine’s spiritual soulmate; in contrast to the later popular legend of Tecumseh’s rejected marriage proposal to a white woman, Margaret, the “captive” of the title, returns Tecumseh’s love and embraces life apart from white society. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese texts are accompanied by selections from Oakes Smith’s \u003cb\u003eWoman and Her Needs\u003c\/b\u003e and her unpublished autobiography, from contemporary captivity narratives and biographies of William Henry Harrison depicting the Shawnee, and from writings by her colleagues Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016893546736,"sku":"9781554811205","price":23.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554811205_p0.jpg?v=1763754456","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554811205","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}