Note 369 — TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF NORTH AMERICA, IN THE YEARS 1832, 1833, AND 1834 (continued 7)

The reference is to Edwin James (editor) Narrative of Captivity and Adventures during thirty years' residence among the Indians in the interior of North America by John Tanner (New York, 1830). John Tanner, a boy of nine years, was captured in Kentucky about 1790. He passed the larger part of his life in the northern woods. In 1818 he sought his relatives in Kentucky while his brother Edward was searching for him near Mackinac. For some years he was employed as interpreter at Sault Ste. Marie, but having become an Indian in habit he shot (1836) and killed James L. Schoolcraft and fled to the wilderness where he died about 1847 (but see Minnesota Historical Collections, vi, p. 114). His Narrative was much quoted by contemporary writers.—Ed.