“Mr. Schoolcraft possesses unusual pretensions to this rare merit of fidelity.”
Author
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft(1793–1864)
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). One work is named, all in Oneota, or The Red Race of America . . ., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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- 1845
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
Confirmed reading
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Henry Rowe Schoolcraft’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
- undatedAlgic ResearchesAttested
“Schoolcraft's Algic Researches is a valuable book, though a worse use could hardly have been made of such fine material.”
Summer on the Lakes
Part of Fuller's first-person catalog of books she read during her western trip (context anchored by explicit 'I read' statements in adjoining sentences).
In Fuller’s words
“A French trader had entered Lake Superior so late in the season, that with every effort, he could get no farther that Pointe La Petite Fille, before the ice arrested his progress. Here he was obliged to build his wintering house, but he soon ran short of provisions, and was obliged to visit La Pointe, with his men, in order to obtain fish—leaving his house and store-room locked, with his goods, ammunition, and liquors, and resolving to return immediately.”
When Fuller engaged with Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Schoolcraft in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1845—
Oneota, or The Red Race of America . . .
“Oneota, or The Red Race of America . . .”analyzed · quoted · read8 selected passages
“My earliest impressions of the Indian race were drawn from fireside rehearsals of incidents which had happened during the perilous times of the American Revolution, in which my father was a zealous actor, and were all inseparably connected with the fearful ideas of the Indian yell, the tomahawk, the scalping knife, and the fire-brand.”
“The Indians, viewed as a distinct branch of the human race, have some peculiar traits and institutions, from which their history and character may be advantageously studied.”
“Books, and the readers of books, have done much to bewilder and perplex the study of the Indian character.”
“The old idea that the Indian mind is not susceptible of a high, or an advantageous cultivation, rests upon very questionable data.”
“Mr. S. speaks of the Indian as pre-eminently a religious being. Here all writers agree.”
“There lived a noted chief at Michilimackinac, in days past, called Gitsche Naygow, or the Great Sand- Dune, a name, or rather nick-name, which he had, probably, derived from his birth and early residence at a spot of very imposing appearance, so called, on the southern shore of Lake Superior, which is east of the range of the Pictured Rocks.”
“A French trader had entered Lake Superior so late in the season, that with every effort, he could get no farther that Pointe La Petite Fille, before the ice arrested his progress.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Oneota, or The Red Race of America . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 12 February 1845.