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Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 [1845], The wigwam and the cabin, volume 1 (Wiley & Putnam, New York) [word count] [eaf371v1].

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Front matter Covers, Edges and Spine

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WILEY AND PUTNAM'S LIBRARY OF CHOICE READING.

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NEW BOOKS, NOW READY AND IN PREPARATION BY WILEY & PUTNAM, 161 BROADWAY, NEW-YORK.

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September, 1845

WANDERINGS OF A PILGRIM

Under the Shadow of Mont Blanc and the Jungfrau. By George B.
Cheever. 2 vols. 16mo. [Just ready.]

II.

THE WIGWAM AND THE CABIN.

By W. Gilmore Simms. 16mo. [Just Ready.]

III.

BIG ABEL AND THE LITTLE MANHATTAN.

By Cornelius Mathews. 16mo. [Just Ready.]

IV.

WESTERN CLEARINGS.

By Mary Clavers (Mrs. Kirkland). Author of a New Home. 16mo.

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THE FOREST AND THE PRAIRIE.

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V. (bis.)

LIFE OF BURNS,

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VI.

VIEWS & REVIEWS OF AMERICAN HISTORY,
LITERATURE & FICTION.

By W. Gilmore Simms. 16mo.

VII.

THE OLD ENGLISH LIBRARY.

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VIII.

A NEW VOLUME OF TALES.

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THE WORKS OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.

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ZSCHOKKE'S ALES.

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XI.

BECKFORD'S ITALY, SPAIN & PORTUGAL.

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ROUGH NOTES IN A JOURNEY ACROSS THE
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By Sir Francis Head.

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WATERTON'S WANDERINGS AND ESSAYS
IN NATURAL HISTORY.

2 vols. 16mo.

XIV.

M SCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF DE QUINCY,
THE ENGLISH OPIUM EATER.

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XV.

DANTE, THE ITALIAN PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.

By Leigh Hunt. 16mo. [In October.]

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XVI.

NOTES OF A JOURNEY FROM LONDON
TO CAIRO.

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XVII.

THE WHITE LADY.

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XVIII.

THE REJECTED ADDRESSES AND
WARRENIANA.

By James and Horace Smith. 16mo.

XIX.

POEMS AND BALLADS.

By Bon Gualtier.

XX.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENVENUTO CELLINI.

Translated by Roscoe.

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MAID MARIAN AND CROTCHET CASTLE.

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BASIL MONTAGU'S SELECTIONS FROM
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CHARLES LAMB'S SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH
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TABLE-TALK OF JOHN SELDEN.

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THE COMPLETE ANGLER;
Or, Contemplative Man's Recreation. By Izaak Walton.

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XXVI.

LORD BACON'S ESSAYS & ADVANCEMENT
OF LEARNING.

XXVII.

ESSAYS & THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD.

By Oliver Goldsmith.

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THE BOOK OF CHRISTMAS.

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LETTERS FROM THE BALTIC.

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XXX.

SCENES IN OUR PARISH.

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MRS. SOUTHEY'S POEMS.

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POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN WILSON.

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FULLER'S HOLY & PROFANE STATE.

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FELTHAM'S RESOLVES.

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MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF LEIGH HUNT.

XXXVII.

THE WORKS OF WILLIAM HAZLITT.

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Preliminaries

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WILEY AND PUTNAM'S
LIBRARY OF
AMERICAN BOOKS.—

THE WIGWAM AND THE CABIN.
FIRST SERIES.

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THE
WIGWAM AND THE CABIN. BY THE AUTHOR OF
“THE YEMASSEE,” “GUY RIVERS,” &c.

“The ancient tales
Which first I learn'd,
Will I relate.”
Edda of Saemund FIRST SERIES. NEW YORK:
WILEY AND PUTNAM, 161 BROADWAY.
1845.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, by
W. GILMORE SIMMS,
In the Clerk's Office of the Distriçt Court of the United States, for the Southern
District of New-York.

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Dedication

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TO
N. ROACH, ESQ.,
OF BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA,
IN PROOF OF
AN AFFECTION WHICH HAS STEADILY ADVANCED
WITH MY JUST APPRECIATION OF HIS
INTEGRITY AND GENTLENESS OF CHARACTER,
I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME.

THE AUTHOR.
New York, Oct. 1, 1845.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

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The Tales which follow have been the accumulation of
several years. They were mostly written for the annuals,—
an expensive form of publication which kept them from
the great body of readers. In this form, however, they met
with favour, and it is thought that their merits are such as
will justify their collection in a compact volume. The material
employed will be found to illustrate, in large degree,
the border history of the South. I can speak with confidence
of the general truthfulness of its treatment. The life of the
planter, the squatter, the Indian, and the negro—the bold and
hardy pioneer, and the vigorous yeomen—these are the subjects.
In their delineation, I have mostly drawn from living
portraits, and, in frequent instances, from actual scenes and
circumstances within the memories of men. More need not
be said. I need not apologize for the endeavour to cast over
the actual, that atmosphere from the realms of the ideal,
which, while it constitutes the very element of fiction, is neither
inconsistent with intellectual truthfulness, nor unfriendly
to the great policies of human society.

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CONTENTS.

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Grayling; or, “Murder Will Out”...1

The Two Camps, a Legend of the Old North State...37

The Last Wager, or the Gamester of the Mississippi...71

The Arm-Chair of Tustenuggee, a Tradition of the Catawba...120

The Snake of the Cabin...149

Oakatibbe, or the Choctaw Sampson...176

Jocassee, a Cherokee Legend...209

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