The Literary Voyager, Or, Muzzeniegun

Résumé du livre

"The last decade has witnessed a renewed interest in the career of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the famous nineteenth century Indian agent, explorer, writer, and student of Indian life and customs. Although he wrote more than twenty full length volumes and hundreds of articles on the Indian, few of his major works are available except in the rare book rooms of libraries or in private collections. Starting in 1953, Michigan State University Press began to republich Schoolcraft's major studies ... In addition to his published works, Henry Schoolcraft presented some of his Indian knowledge to a select public in the odd form of manuscript magazines. Although now almost unknown, except to a few bibliographers, these magazines were, in their day, widely circulated among students of Indian culture. The most informative of them was the "Literary Voyager" prepared weekly by Schoolcraft at Sault Ste. Marie during the winter of 1826-1827. This magazine, which Schoolcraft later gave the subtitle "Muzzeniegun," a Chippewa word meaning "a printed document or book," contained articles, poems, and announcements on all aspects of Indian life and customs."--Jacket