The Arkansas Regulators / / ed. by Christoph Irmscher, Charles Adams.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• HerausgeberIn: Adams, Charles,; Irmscher, Christoph,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Transatlantic Perspectives ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (426 p.)

The Arkansas Regulators is a rousing tale of frontier adventure, first published in German in 1846, but virtually lost to English readers for well over a century. Written in the tradition of James Fenimore Cooper, but offering a much darker and more violent image of the American frontier, this was t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• A Note about the Text
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Foreword.
• Chapter 1. The Reader Makes the Acquaintance of Four Worthy Fellows and Learns More about Their Circumstances
• Chapter 2. Several New Persons Make Their Appearance on the Stage. Wonderful Hunting Adventure of “The Little Man.”
• Chapter 3. The Indian and the Methodist. – An Invitation to a Wedding
• Chapter 4. The Regulators. – Squabble and Struggle
• Chapter 5. Brown and Marion
• Chapter 6. Bear Baiting. – The Strange Discovery. – The Indian’s Ingenuity
• Chapter 7. Two Genuine Backwoodsmen. – Bahrens’ and Harper’s Stories
• Chapter 8. Morning in the Log Cabin. – Searching for the Traces of Blood Found the Previous Evening. – Assowaum Dives for the Corpse
• Chapter 9. Th e Gang of Four Negotiates a Business Matter. – Rowson’s Righteous Indignation at the Murder, and Marion’s Weakness
• Chapter 10. The Sheriff ’s Election in Pettyville. – A Lack of Rosin. The Pursuers Are on the Trail
• Chapter 11. Assowaum, the “Feathered Arrow,” and His Squaw. – Weston and Cotton Impatiently Await Their Comrades
• Chapter 12. The Horse Thieves’ Trick. – The Surprise. – Alapaha and Rowson
• Chapter 13. The Preacher Unmasked by the Indian Woman. – Th e Successful Escape
• Chapter 14. Brown on His Way Home. – The Mysterious Meeting. – The Indian. – The Old Farmer. – A Canoe Trip
• Chapter 15. The Prayer Meeting. – The Terrible Message
• Chapter 16. The Deathwatch
• Chapter 17. The Burial of the Indian Woman
• Chapter 18. Roberts’ Adventure on the Panther Hunt. – The Water Party
• Chapter 19. Harper’s Dwelling. – Cook’s Account of the Pursuit of the Horse Thieves. – Harper’s and Bahrens’ Wonderful Tales
• Chapter 20. Rowson at Roberts’. – Assowaum
• Chapter 21. Wilson’s Confessions. – The Beautiful Washerwoman. – An Arkansas Cradle. – The Retreat
• Chapter 22. Atkins’ Dwelling. – The Strange Visit. – The Password
• Chapter 23. A Gang of Criminals. – Unexpected Guests. – Th e New Scheme
• Chapter 24. The Pioneer Family. – The New Regulator Sets a Trap for Himself
• Chapter 25. Harper and Marion. – Ellen’s Arrival at Roberts’
• Chapter 26. The Regulators’ Meeting. – Jones Finds Himself in a Most Unpleasant Position. – Cunning versus Cunning
• Chapter 27. The Return from the Meeting
• Chapter 28. The Indian on Johnson’s Trail
• Chapter 29. Rowson at Roberts’. – The Turkey Hunt. – Ellen and Marion.
• Chapter 30. The Ambush
• Chapter 31. The Company of Ladies. – Account of Various Children’s Illnesses, Related for the Consolation of the Mother. – The Surprise
• Chapter 32. The Cross Oak
• Chapter 33. The Criminal Unmasked
• Chapter 34. The Siege
• Chapter 35. Ruse and Counter-Ruse. – The Assault. – Indian and Methodist
• Chapter 36. The Court of the Regulators
• Chapter 37. Roberts’ House
• Chapter 38. The Revenge of the “Feathered Arrow.”
• Chapter 39. Coda
• Selected Bibliography