The Yemassee
By: by William Gilmore Simms; edited, with introduction, chronology, and bibliography, by Alexander Cowie ...
Contributors: Cowie, Alexander, 1896- ed.
Series: American fiction series
Publisher: American Book Company
Published: 1937
Place of publication: New York; Cincinnati [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Fiction.; Yamassee Indians -- Fiction.; South Carolina -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.; Beaufort (S.C.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Viewed from today's perspective, The Yemassee dramatically and unflinchingly bares the manipulation, exploitation, and eventual genocide of a proud indigenous nation that preferred extinction to the surrender of its land and the subjugation of its people.
Notes: "Selected bibliography: p. xxxvii-xli.