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192. Alden T.Vaughan and Daniel K. Richter, "Crossing the Cultural Divide:
Indians and New Englanders, 1605-1763," Proceedings of the American
Antiquarian Society 90, pt. I (Worcester, Mass: American Antiquarian
Society, 1980): 55-57.
193. Susan Armitage, "Women's Literature and the American Frontier:A New
Perspective on the Frontier Myth," in W o men, Women W r iters, and the Iiliest,
ed. L. L. Lee and Merrill Lewis (Troy, N.Y.:Whitson, 1979), 7.
194. Fanny Wiggins Kelley, "To the Senators and Members of the House of
Representatives of Congress" (undated broadside), Graff Collection,
Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill.
195. Rosita Rodriges to Her Father, IS January 1846, Brazos River, Robertson
County, T e xas, 1 8 46, Barker T e xas History Center, University of T e xas,
Austin; Emma Polk, "Reminiscence" (n.d.), Iowa State Historical Society,
Iowa City; and Martha V. W e bster Simmons, "The W e bster Massacre"
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( 1 925), Barker e xas History Center, University of e xas, Austin.
196. Margaret Schmidt Hacker, Cynthia Ann Parker: The Life and the Legend (El
Paso: e xas W e stern Press, 1990), 3-I , 31-41.
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197. Parrish, "Westward in 1850."
198. Ibid.; and Dorothy M.Johnson, "Lost Sister," in Mid-Century,AnAnthology
of Distinguished Contemporary Short Stories, ed. Orville Prescott (New o rk:
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W a shington Square Press, 1973), II-I2.
199. Bunyard, "Diary."
200. Aunt Friendly, T h e Children on the Plains (New Y o rk: Robert Carter,
1864), 9-10, 101-16.
201. G. M. Brady, "The Story of Little Silver Hair," Manuscripts 28, no. 4 (1976):
294, 299·
202. Warren, Memoirs of the Iiliest, 3 I; and Saunders, "Whitman Massacre."
203. Polly Jane Purcell, "Autobiography and Reminiscence of a Pioneer," Graff
Collection, Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill.; Matilda S. J. Delaney, A
Survivor's Recollections of the Whitman Massacre (Spokane, Wash.: Esther
Reed Chapter, D.A.R., 1920), 45; and Abigail Smith to My Dear Friend
& Sister in Christ, 7 January 8 56, Oregon e rritory, Beinecke Collection,
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Y a le University Library, New Haven, Conn.
204. Delaney, Survivor's Recollections, 45.
205. For another view, see June Namias, White Captives and Ethnicity on the
American Frontier (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993).
206. Mary Butler Renville, A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity
(Minneapolis:Atlas Co., 8 63), 19, 43-44.
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207. Wilhelmina B. Carrigan, Captured by the Indians: Reminiscences of Pioneer
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Life in Minnesota (Forest City, S.D.: Forest City Press, 1907), I , 15-16.
208. Ibid., 3-'7.
209. Ruth S. Thompson, "The T r agedy of Legion Valley" (1928), Bancroft

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