MALAESKA (Western Classic) (Annotated)

Ann S. Stephens's Malaeska, often remembered as the inaugural Beadle's Dime Novel, transforms the frontier romance into a compact drama of love, captivity, racial boundary, and national expansion. Centered on Malaeska, a Native woman who marries a white hunter and bears a child caught between two worlds, the narrative blends sentimental melodrama with the sensational energies of early popular fict...