This edition recovers Elizabeth Oakes Smith's successful 1842 novel The Western Captive; or, The Times of Tecumsehand includes many of Oakes Smith's other writings about Native Americans, including short stories, legends, and autobiographical and biographical sketches. The Western Captiveportrays 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...