A narrative of the captivity and adventures of John Tanner (U.S. interpreter at the Saut [sic] de Ste. Marie) during thirty years residence among the Indians in the interior of North America

A narrative of the captivity and adventures of John Tanner (U.S. interpreter at the Saut [sic] de Ste. Marie) during thirty years residence among the Indians in the interior of North America

Author: Tanner, John, 1780?-1847. (author)

Year: 1830

Tanner, John: 1780?-1847. Captured by Natives from his home in Kentucky, 1790; lived among Ottawa and Chippewa in Manitoba and elsewhere in Northwest; hunted and roamed through the midwestern states, and for a time in Red River country; Indian name "Grey Hawk" ( Dictionary of American biography ). // James, Edwin: 1797-1861. Born in Weybridge, Vermont; studied medicine, botany, and geology; botanist and geologist on Samuel H. Long expedition, 1820; surgeon on frontier for U.S. Army, 1824-1830; lived in Albany, New York; moved west, settling in Burlington, Iowa ( Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography , 1887). // Also published, New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830 (426p.); reprinted with a new introduction by Noel Miller Loomis, Minneapolis, Minn.: Ross & Haines, 1956 (xxxiv, 427p.); reprint of 1st New York edition, New York: Garland Pub., 1975 (426p.); reprinted, without Edwin James' introductory chapter and all of part II, as An Indian captivity (1789-1822): John Tanner's narrative of his captivity among the Ottawa and Ojibwa Indians , San Francisco, Calif: [California State Library], 1940 ([4], 1 leaf, 216 numbered leaves). There are two German versions: Des Kentuckier's Jo