Bibliograph

A Tour on the Prairies, an Account of Thirty Days in Deep Indian Country

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A Tour on the Prairies, an Account of Thirty Days in Deep Indian Country

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A Tour on the Prairies

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

862103413

Sub title

an Account of Thirty Days in Deep Indian Country

Summary

In 1832, Washington Irving, America's first literary superstar, returned to the United States after seventeen years abroad and swiftly set out to explore Pawnee country-the wild uncharted territory deep in the young nation's interior. It was a part of the country few white men had set foot in and even fewer had written about it-and certainly none as famous as Irving. Owing to a chance encounter on a steamboat with the newly appointed Indian Commissioner, and embracing an opportunity to silence critics who had begun to doubt his patriotism (after so much time abroad), Irving fi

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