THE NARRATIVE OF COLONEL ETHAN ALLEN. RevolutionaryWar experiences of the “Hero of Fort Ticonderoga” and “The GreenMountain Boys.” Introduction by Brooke Hindle.
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JOHN WOOLMAN’S JOURNAL and A PLEA FORTHE POOR. The spiritual autobiography of the great ColonialQuaker. Introduction by Frederick B. Tolles.
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THE LIFE OF MRS. MARY JEMISON by James E. Seaver.The famous Indian captivity narrative of the “White Woman of theGenesee.” Introduction by Allen W. Trelease.
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BROOK FARM by Lindsay Swift. America’s mostunusual experiment in establishing the ideal society during theTranscendentalist 1840’s. Introduction by Joseph Schiffman.
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FOUR VOYAGES TO THE NEW WORLD by ChristopherColumbus. Selected letters and documents translated and edited byR. H. Major. Introduction by John E. Fagg.
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JOURNALS OF MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS. Frontiercampaigning during the French and Indian Wars by theorganizer of “Rogers’ Rangers.” Introduction by Howard H. Peckham.
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HARRIET TUBMAN, THE MOSES OF HER PEOPLE by SarahBradford. The heroic life of a former slave’s struggle for herpeople. Introduction by Butler A. Jones.
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RECOLLECTIONS OF THE JERSEY PRISON SHIP by AlbertGreene. The “Andersonville” of the Revolutionary War. Introductionby Lawrence H. Leder.
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A NEW ENGLAND GIRLHOOD by Lucy Larcom. A classicmemoir of life in pre-Civil War America. Introduction by Charles T.Davis.
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AMERICAN COMMUNITIES by William Alfred Hinds. Firsthand account of the 19th century utopias—Economy, Amana, Shakers,etc. Introduction by Henry Bamford Parkes.
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INTELLECTUAL ORIGINS OF AMERICAN NATIONAL THOUGHT.Edited, with commentary, by Wilson Ober Clough. Pages from thebooks our Founding Fathers read. Second, revised edition.
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LEAGUE OF THE IROQUOIS by Lewis Henry Morgan. Thefirst scientific account of an American Indian tribe by the fatherof American ethnology. Introduction by William N. Fenton.
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MY CAPTIVITY AMONG THE SIOUX INDIANS by Fanny Kelly.A pioneer woman’s harrowing story of frontier days. Introduction byJules Zanger.
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JOUTEL’S JOURNAL OF LA SALLE’S LAST VOYAGE. TheMississippi exploration (1684–7) which ended in La Salle’s murder.Introduction by Darrett B. Rutman.
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THE DISCOVERY, SETTLEMENT AND PRESENT STATE OFKENTUCKE ... by John Filson. The historic post-Revolutionarydescription, which includes Daniel Boone’s memoir. Introduction byWilliam H. Masterson.
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THE LIFE AND REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF ISRAEL R.POTTER. The autobiography of America’s first tragic hero—thebasis for Melville’s famous novel. Introduction by Leonard Kriegel.
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EXCURSIONS by Henry David Thoreau. The famousposthumous collection, including a biography by Ralph WaldoEmerson. Introduction by Leo Marx.
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FATHER HENSON’S STORY OF HIS OWN LIFE. Autobiographyof an escaped Negro slave in pre-Civil War days. Introduction byWalter Fisher.
“One of the most exciting and promising new ventures in the fieldof paperback publishing is the American Experience Series now beingbrought out by Corinth Books. These new and attractive editions ofhistoric and relatively neglected titles fill out in a unique way someof the byways of our country’s past.”
Robert R. Kirsch in THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
THE LIFE AND REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF ISRAEL R. POTTER
“Israel Potter is not merely another good man adrift in a world devoid of goodness: he is, above all, an American, whose ideals and aims are derived from that same self-reliant democratic ethos which Whitman and Emerson were later to celebrate. Hired laborer, farmer, chain bearer, hunter, trapper, Indian trader, merchant sailor, whaler, soldier, courier, spy, carpenter, and beggar, through it all, Israel remains the American, the man who, even in the hardships of exile, insists that all will be well once he can again walk ‘on American ground.’
“This small book did not help Israel Potter achieve his objective: his quest for a pension proved unsuccessful, and he died soon after, on ‘the same day,’ Melville tells us, ‘that the oldest oak in his native hills was blown down.’ He took with him whatever was left of his dreams and pride, an end which, to some extent, all victims share. ‘Kings as Clowns,’ Melville wrote bitterly, ‘are codgers—who ain’t a nobody?’ It is a fitting epitaph for all the Israel Potters.”
from the Introduction by Leonard Kriegel, The City College of New York
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