[The Trapper's Bride] | Whitman Archive

Whitman Archive Title: [The Trapper's Bride]
Whitman Archive ID: loc.00164
Repository: Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Box: 39
Folder: Literary, 1856, Indian Theme for Poem
Series: Notes and Notebooks
Date: 1856 or later
Genre: poetry
Physical Description: 1 leaf, printed; handwritten
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Content: A clipping of an article entitled "The Indian in American Art" from The Crayon: A Journal Devoted to the Graphic Arts, and the Literature Related to Them, with a piece of paper pasted to the bottom containing an idea for a poem about Native Americans. At the top is written "The Trapper's Bride by a Baltimore artist." A date on the verso indicates that the document is from January 1856.