Item Summary

Tubbee was kidnapped in infancy and brought up as a negro slave.

Descriptive Information

Title
A thrilling sketch of the life of the distinguished chief Okah Tubbee : alias Wm. Chubbee, son of the head chief, Mosholeh Tubbee, of the Choctaw Nation of Indians / by L.L. Allen.
Call Number
EX 1070.256.91
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcrn301g05k
Publisher
New York : [publisher not identified], 1848.
Language
English
Date Created
1848
Extent
43 p. ; 19 cm.
Provenance
Ex copy: Book label of Cyrus Hall McCormick.
Ex copy: Note added to laid-in description: "Bought Scott & O'Shaughnessy Sale February 20, 1917. [W.] M. Hill"
Source Acquisition
Ex copy: Presented by Mrs. Marshall L. Brown, from the collection of Cyrus H. McCormick, Class of 1879.
References
Howes, W. U.S.iana (2nd ed.), A153
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Tubbee was kidnapped in infancy and brought up as a negro slave.
Contains "a true narrative drawn up from his own lips" (p. 15-43)
"This...sketch will be continued in forthcoming numbers..."--p. 43. No more published?
Binding Note
Ex copy: 20th century half bound in brown goat. Original yellow printed wrappers intact inside binding.

Discovery Information

Subject
Choctaw Indians
Southwest, Old—Social life and customs
Indigenous Studies
Personal narratives
Bookplates

Physical Characteristics

File Count
70

Institutional Information

Collection
Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ff3d18a0-c607-46b3-99da-f44130f30d48/manifest