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The Wigwam and the Cabin

Era of the Early Republic | Short Stories | Redfield | 1856

Originally published by Wiley and Putnam in two volumes—the first series in October 1845 and the second in February 1846—for the Library of American Books series, The Wigwam and the Cabin is a collection of border stories about the southwestern frontier. Simms best summarized the collection in a dedicatory letter to his father-in-law for the 1856 Redfield edition: “One word for the material of these legends. It is local, sectional—and to be national in literature, one must needs be sectional. No one mind can fully or fairly illustrate the characteristics of any great ...