Cornelius, Elias:

$200 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE LITTLE OSAGE CAPTIVE, AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE. The first edition of a popular captivity narrative. "The little Osage captive was rescued by missionaries from amongst the Cherokees, and given the name of Lydia Carter" - Ayer. The events take place in Tennessee. The frontispiece plate depicts the Cherokee captors showing the scalps of the little girl's parents to the author, as the girl looks on. The supposed 1821 edition recorded by Ayer is a ghost, according to Howes: "In some copies of the York edition the final '4' in the date had become so broken as to resemble a '1,' hence the myth of an 1821 printing."

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