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The Payne-Butrick Papers, 2-volume set
Anderson Rogers B
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Description for The Payne-Butrick Papers, 2-volume set
Hardback.
This landmark two-volume set is the richest and most important extant collection of information about traditional Cherokee culture. Because many of the Cherokees’ own records were lost during their forced removal to the west, the Payne-Butrick Papers are the most detailed written source about the Cherokee Nation during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the 1830s John Howard Payne, a respected author, actor, and playwright, and Daniel S. Butrick, an American Board missionary, hastened to gather information on Cherokee life and history, fearing that the cultural knowledge would be lost forever. Butrick, who was conversant with the Cherokees’ culture ... Read more
This landmark two-volume set is the richest and most important extant collection of information about traditional Cherokee culture. Because many of the Cherokees’ own records were lost during their forced removal to the west, the Payne-Butrick Papers are the most detailed written source about the Cherokee Nation during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the 1830s John Howard Payne, a respected author, actor, and playwright, and Daniel S. Butrick, an American Board missionary, hastened to gather information on Cherokee life and history, fearing that the cultural knowledge would be lost forever. Butrick, who was conversant with the Cherokees’ culture ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
928
Condition
New
Number of Pages
928
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803228436
SKU
V9780803228436
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Ref
99-28
About Anderson Rogers B
William L. Anderson is a professor emeritus at Western Carolina University. He is the coeditor of A Guide to Cherokee Documents in Foreign Archives and the editor of Cherokee Removal: Before and After and the Journal of Cherokee Studies. Jane L. Brown is an instructor of anthropology at Western Carolina University. Anne F. Rogers is a professor of anthropology at ... Read more
Reviews for The Payne-Butrick Papers, 2-volume set
"Anderson, Brown, and Rogers . . . have done a remarkable job of compiling the Payne-Butrick papers, a compendium of lore about religion, kinship, government, and myriad other elements of Cherokee cultural history. . . . A must-have set for libraries, especially in the old Cherokee Southeast and Oklahoma."—C.R. Kasee, CHOICE "The Payne-Butrick Papers will be used by scholars, and, ... Read more