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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Before the Mayflower: The Vikings and the French; The Wineland of Leif the Lucky; First Blood: The Death of the Carpenter of St. Malo; The Fight at Fortuné: Champlain at Stage Harbor; The Coming of the Mayflower; The Captain of the Mayflower; That Bright Dawn When Mayflower I First Sighted Cape; William Bradford's First Wife: A Suicide; The First Encounter; The Sparrow Hawk; The French, the English, and the Indians: War in the Colonies, 1690-1745; Mary Corliss Neff; How the Smiths Came to Cape Cod: Mary Smith of Oyster River |
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Honor Bright: Elizabeth Vickery and the French PrivateersExploit of a Cape Cod Indian at Louisbourg, 1745; Life and Legend on Cape Cod; A Cape Cod Colonial: Uncle Elathun''s House; The Wading Place Path; Pompmo and the Legend of Paw Waw''s Pond; Old Maushope''s Smoke: A Cape Cod Indian Fog Legend; Native American History and Genealogy; The Praying Indians of Lower Cape Cod; The Old Sagamore: Mattaquason of Monomoyick; Micah Rafe, Indian Man: Last Full Blood on Lower Cape Cod; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Early Encounters contains a selection of nineteen essays from the papers of prominent New England historian, antiquarian, and genealogist Warren Sears Nickerson (1880-1966). This extensive study of his own family ties to the Mayflower, and his exhaustive investigation of the first contacts between Europeans and Native Americans, in what is today New England, made him an unquestioned authority in both fields. The research upon which the text of Early Encounters is based occurred between the 1920s and the 1950s. Each of Nickerson's works included in this carefully edited volume is placed i |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples -- New England
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Indians of North America -- New England -- History
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HISTORY -- General.
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Indians of North America.
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Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples.
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New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091268
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New England.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780870139017 |
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0870139010 |
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