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Author Barbour, Philip L.

Title Pocahontas and her world : a chronicle of America's first settlement in which is related the story of the Indians and the Englishmen, particularly Captain John Smith, Captain Samuel Argall, and Master John Rolfe / Philip L. Barbour.

Imprint Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1970.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  975.501 P75Bb 1970    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xx, 320 pages, [12] p. of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299) and index.
Contents Chronology -- "In the gloom and silence of the dark and impenetrable forest" -- The whitemen -- Pocahontas and Captain John Smith -- Powhatan and John Smith -- While Powhatan watched : the starving time -- Samuel Argall of Kent : half-idle onlooker at Jamestown -- Jamestown challenges the Indians -- Pocahontas and Captain Argall -- John Rolfe meets Pocahontas -- Pocahontas' wedding and peace with the Indians -- Peace within the colony -- Leaving the forest behind -- Pocahontas (and John Smith) in London -- Peace draws to a close -- "Like a death-web spun" -- The aftermath -- What happened to the three Englishmen in Pocahontas' life -- Appendixes. Notes on so-called relics of Powhatan and Pocahontas -- Notes on the Rolfe family -- John Rolfe's letter to Sir Thomas Dale regarding his marriage to Pocahontas.
Subject Jamestown (Va.) -- History.
Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- Virginia.
Indian women -- Virginia -- Jamestown -- Biography.
Powhatan Indians -- Biography.
Pocahontas, -1617.
Pocahontas, -1617. (OCoLC)fst01841745
Indian women. (OCoLC)fst00969245
Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans. (OCoLC)fst00969743
Powhatan Indians. (OCoLC)fst01074484
Virginia. (OCoLC)fst01204597
Virginia -- Jamestown. (OCoLC)fst01205035
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

 
    
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