Author Archives: Carrie Zeman

Many Hands, Many Voices: Writing, Editing, and Publishing Indian Captivity Narratives

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Carrie Zeman

by Zabelle Stodola, University of Arkansas at Little Rock “Captivity narratives are tricky texts” says my friend and colleague Christopher Castiglia who teaches at Penn State University and who published the book Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood … Continue reading →

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Yellow-back Gold

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Carrie Zeman

Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter by Mrs. Ann E. Stephens, June 1860. Edward S. Ellis’s first dime novel, Seth Jones: Captives of the Frontier, 1860, is said to have been one of Abraham Lincoln’s favorite stories. Myrtle: The … Continue reading →

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The Remarkable Story of Edward S. Ellis

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Carrie Zeman

Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1840-1916 Who was Edward S. Ellis and what made him an authority on Minnesota history? “Wait!” you might protest, “You said Ellis wrote pulp fiction! That is very different from writing history!” Fiction and non-fiction seem like … Continue reading →

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Fodder for Pulp Fiction

Posted on October 13, 2012 by Carrie Zeman

If Mary Butler Renville’s A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity has the distinction of being the earliest extended Dakota War  narrative to appear in print, Josephine Huggins’s has another: It is the earliest to be co-opted for novelization. Cover, Dime … Continue reading →

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Josephine’s Experience Becomes a Story

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Carrie Zeman

Obituary clipping: Josephine Marsh Huggins Hanthorne c. 1927. Thomas Hughes Papers, Mankato State University, Mankato, MN. Newspaper not identified. ***** Eliza Huggins’s letters, which I transcribed in the previous post in this series about  Josephine Huggins’s 1862 captivity story, told … Continue reading →

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Josephine Huggins: “It is impossible for me to name the innumerable blessings”

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Carrie Zeman

Sophia Josephine Marsh Huggins Hanthorne 1838-1927. Part three in a series about new documents commenting on Sophia Josephine Marsh‘s 1862 captivity story. ***** Letter “D” Oak Grove Dec 14th/63 Mr. Riggs My Dear friend Your kind letter with the draught … Continue reading →

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Eliza Huggins: “We thank you for the trouble you… have had with Josephine’s narrative.”

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Carrie Zeman

“Adventures Among the Indians: Narrative of the Captivity and Rescue of Mrs. Sophia Josephine Huggins,” as reprinted in the St. Paul Weekly Press February 12, 1863, page 3.  In Rescuing Josephine Huggins, I opened the story of a new collection … Continue reading →

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Rescuing Josephine Huggins

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Carrie Zeman

Letter “A” St Peter Sep 17/62 Rev S. R. Riggs Dear Sir I am continually thinking of ways to get Sister Josephine out of her present danger we have no team that would be of any use in a flying … Continue reading →

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The Peace Party Fought for Mni Sota Makoce, Too

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Carrie Zeman

Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, Minnesota, in winter January 29, 2013, I am booked as the History Lounge speaker at the Minnesota Historical Society. I’m excited because after spending this past summer of commemoration talking about food –who was starving … Continue reading →

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Other Wise

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Carrie Zeman

Odobenus rosmarus Daughter, beginning student of Latin: “Mom, does that mean the walrus smells good?” ***** Recently, I heard a scholar explain his inability to supply information with what I think of as the “oral history excuse:” knowledge on that subject … Continue reading →

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