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Issue Details: First known date: 1887... 1887 An Indian Tradition
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Cross-cultural romance. Tale of love between a white hunter and the beautiful daughter of a chief of the Delawares in the USA. Her father refuses to allow them to marry and burns the hunter at the stake - but his daughter jumps to her death from the Calicoon falls. It marks the beginning of the end for the Delawares. Slight; retains a flavour of Indian/mythic language. (PB)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 23 no. 268 September 1887 Z1061695 1887 periodical issue 1887 pg. 19-20
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