A Cherokee Woman's America: Memoirs of Narcissa Owen, 1831-1907

The editor of this memoir prepared it for publication with the understanding that Owen's work serves two purposes. Karen Kilcup, a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is a specialist in American women writers with a particular interest in Native American authors, so her introduction concentrates on literary analysis. But she also recognizes that Owen's narrative is an important historical source for the removal of the Cherokees from the Southeast to the Trans-Mississippi West and provides substantial footnotes referring to the scholarship on this subject.