Scenes and adventures in central America
By: ed. by Frederick Hardman.
Contributors: Hardman, Frederick, 1814-1874, ed. and tr.
Publisher: W. Blackwood and sons
Published: 1852
Place of publication: Edinburgh and; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction; Southwest, Old -- Fiction
Notes: "Rifacimenti" from the German works of Charles Sealsfield; published in Blackwood's magazine, v. 54-55, 1843-44. Issued, with two additional tales, under title: Frontier life. New York, 1856, 1857, and 1859.
Table of contents: title: Adventures in Louisiana [from Lebensbilder aus der westlichen hemisphäre] I. The cypress swamp. II. The bloody blockhouse.; title: Adventures in Texas [from Das kajütenbuch] I. A scamper in the prairie. II. Lynch law. III. Twenty to one.; title: Two nights in southern Mexico [from Süden und Norden]; title: A sketch in the tropics [from Das kajütenbuch] I. The fugitive. II. The blockade.