Events in Indian history
Subtitle: beginning with an account of the origin of the American Indians, and early settlements in North America, and embracing concise biographies of the principal chiefs and head-sachems of the different Indian tribes, with narratives and captivities : including the destruction of Schenectady, murder of Miss M'Crea, desctruction of Wyoming, battle of the Thames and Tippecanoe, Braddock's defeat, General Wayne's victory at Miami, life of Logan, massacre of the Indians at Lancaster, PA., &c : also an appendix containing the statistics of the population of the U. States and an Indian vocabulary
By: compiled by James Wimer
Contributors: Drake, Samuel G., 1798-1875, writer of supplementary textual content; Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823, writer of supplementary textual content; Proud, Robert, 1728-1813, writer of supplementary textual content
Series: Indigenous Peoples: North America; Indigenous Peoples: North America
Publisher: G. Hills & Company
Published: 1841
Place of publication: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Language: eng
Number of pages: 633
Subjects: Indians of North America; History; Biography; Kings and rulers; Indian captivities
Notes: Attributed to James Wimer; confer Checklist American imprints.

"This work has, however, been undertaken by a distinguished author, S.G. Drake, Esq., of Massachusetts, who has already published several volumes, which are deservedly popular. We must here acknowledge that we are indebted to him for some of the events which appear in the volume we are now presenting to the public"--Page [9].

"A review of the Indians of the middle states are also given, and in this we have extracted from Heckewelder and Proud, especially that part which refers to Pennsylvania"--Page 11.

"Illustrated with eight fine engravings."

Lithographs by Sinclair's Lith. Phila.

"Dictionary of Indian words and phrases": pages [529]-536; "Statistics of the population of the United States, including free colored persons and slaves": page 537.

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.

Includes bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: Origin of the American Indians; title: Indian biography; title: Narratives, captivities and anecdotes; title: Interesting fragments.