Life in America: or, The Wigwam and the Cabin

This collection of nine stories of the antebellum South, dating from the very founding of the United States as a nation or even earlier in some cases, is surprisingly macabre, eerie, or offbeat in its plotlines. Unusual for early American fiction. Many of these stories take place long before the War between the States, when much of the area barely existed as anything but Indian land and sparsely settled frontier. The collection provides a unique viewpoint of early American life in the South...