The Present State of the European Settlements on the Missisippi
Item
Pittman, Philip, Captain. “The Present State of the European Settlements on the Missisippi”. J. Nourse, Terra Incognita, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/terra-incognita/item/18871
- Title
- The Present State of the European Settlements on the Missisippi
- Description
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As more people began settling in America and coming more in contact with Native Americans a new genre of fiction sprang up, the captivity narrative. These were accounts of people, often women and children, who were taken captive after violent confrontations between Native Americans and settlers.
Later narratives became somewhat sensationalized and probably contained exaggerations as the readers' appetites for such descriptions increased. - Creator
- Pittman, Philip, Captain
- Publisher
- J. Nourse
- Date
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1770
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- Item sets
- Terra Incognita
- Site pages
- Captivity Narratives
Pittman, Philip, Captain. “The Present State of the European Settlements on the Missisippi”. J. Nourse, Terra Incognita, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/terra-incognita/item/18871