Pocahontas (US: , UK: ; born Amonute, also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; c. 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Wahunsenacawh, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah (known in English as the Powhatan Confederacy), encompassing the Tidewater region of what is today the U.S. state of Virginia. (From Wikipedia) More about Pocahontas:
More specific subjects: | | Books about Pocahontas: Filed under: Pocahontas, -1617 The Capture and Release of Captain John Smith, Including His Rescue From Death by Pocahontas, in His Own Words, From The General Historie of Virginia, As Published at London in 1624 (Ann Arbor, MI: Reprinted for the Clements Library Associates, 1960), by John Smith (page images at HathiTrust) Pocahontas, and Other Poems, by L. H. Sigourney (page images at MOA) Pocahontas: Including An Account of the Early Settlement of Virginia and of the Adventures of Captain John Smith (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, c1879), by Edward Eggleston and Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye (multiple formats at Indiana) Famous Indians: A Collection of Short Biographies (Washington: GPO, 1966), by United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (page images at HathiTrust) The Life and Adventures of Captain John Smith: Comprising an Account of His Travels in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; Also, the Early History of Virginia and New England; Including Sketches of Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough, and Other Distinguished Characters, Principally Compiled From His Own Works (Hartford: S. Andrus and son, 1855), by W. C. Armstrong, contrib. by John Smith Travels of Four Years and a Half in the United States of America, During 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802 (London: Sold by T. Ostell; et al., 1803), by John Davis A True Discourse of the Present Estate of Virginia, and the Successe of the Affaires There Till the 18 of June, 1614 (reprint of 1615 edition), by Ralph Hamor, contrib. by Thomas Dale, Alexander Whitaker, and John Rolfe (HTML and page images at LOC)
Filed under: Pocahontas, -1617 -- DramaFiled under: Pocahontas, -1617 -- Fiction The Daughter of Virginia Dare (New York: Neale Publishing, 1908), by Mary Virginia Wall (HTML and page images at ecu.edu) My Lady Pokahontas: A True Relation of Virginia, Writ by Anas Todkill, Puritan and Pilgrim (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1885), by John Esten Cooke (multiple formats at archive.org) My Lady Pokahontas: A True Relation of Virginia, Writ by Anas Todkill, Puritan and Pilgrim (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1907), by John Esten Cooke (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com) Filed under: Pocahontas, -1617 -- Juvenile literatureFiled under: Pocahontas, -1617 -- Poetry The Jamestown Princess: Pocahontas Legends (1907), by Anna Cunningham Cole Pocahontas (New York: Broadway Pub. Co., c1906), by Virginia Armistead Garber Pocahontas: A Poem, by Virginia Carter Castleman (Gutenberg text)
23 additional books about Pocahontas in the extended shelves: The story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906), by E. Boyd Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
The memory of Pocahontas vindicated against the erroneous judgment of the Hon. Waddy Thompson ... (Printed by J. and G. S. Gideon, 1847), by J. C. Pickett (page images at HathiTrust)
Pocahontas (G. E. Howard, 1906), by Ella Loraine Dorsey (page images at HathiTrust)
Travels of four years and a half in the United States of America during 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802. (H. Holt and company, 1909), by John Davis and Alfred J. Morrison (page images at HathiTrust)
Pocahontas, and other poems. (Harper & brothers, 1841), by L. H. Sigourney (page images at HathiTrust)
John Smith - Also Pocahontas (Brentano's, 1928), by John Gould Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
Pocahontas, alias Matoaka, and her descendants through her marriage at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, with John Rolfe, gentleman; including the names of Alfriend, Archer, Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Bolling, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge, Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay, Gordon, Griflin, Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade, McRae, Murray, Page, Poythress, Randolph, Robertson, Skipwith, Stanard, Tazewell, Walke, West, Whittle, and others ([Va., Reprinted by Jarman's, Incorporated ... for The Green bookman], 1932), by Wyndham Robertson and R. A. Brock (page images at HathiTrust)
Pocahontas, alias Matoaka, and her descendants through her marriage at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, with John Rolfe, gentleman; including the names of Alfriend, Archer, Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Boling, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge, Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay, Gordon, Griffin, Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade, McRae, Murray, Page, Poythress, Randolph, Robertson, Skipwith, Stanard, Tazewel, Walke, West, Whittle, and others. (J. W. Randolph & English, 1887), by Wyndham Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
Cecilia, or, Memoirs of an heiress (Printed and published by J.F. Dove, in the 1820s), by Fanny Burney, John Davis, Charles Heath, and H. Corbould (page images at HathiTrust)
By-ways of Virginia history; a Jamestown memorial, embracing a sketch of Pocahontas (Everett Waddey company, 1907), by R. H. Early and Everett Waddey Company (page images at HathiTrust)
The romance of Pocahontas (The Cosmopolitan Press, 1912), by Edson Kenny Odell (page images at HathiTrust)
Princess Pocahontas (Neale Pub. Co., 1907), by Mittie Owen McDavid (page images at HathiTrust)
The Princess Pocahontas; her story. From the original authorities (Whittet & Shepperson, Printers, 1907), by William Ludwell Sheppard (page images at HathiTrust)
Pocahontas : Including an account of the early settlement of Virginia and of the adventures of Captain John Smith (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1879), by Edward Eggleston and Elizabeth Seelye (page images at HathiTrust)
Travels of four years and a half in the United States of America during 1798, 1799, 1800, 1801, and 1802. (Holt, 1985), by John Davis and Alfred J. Morrison (page images at HathiTrust)
The picture of the baptism of Pocahontas : painted by order of Congress, for the rotunda of the Capitol (P. Force, 1840), by J. G. Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
Pocahontas (M. A. Donohue, 1879), by Edward Eggleston and Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye (page images at HathiTrust)
Pocahontas : a tale of old Virginie (W.P. Nimmo, 1870), by Francis Davis, Marcus Ward, B. Hobson Carroll, and Marcus Ward & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
Ye true narrative of ye Princess "Pocahontas" (Matoaka) : with other diver matters concernynge ye olde and ye new worlde (Smither Brothers, 1895), by Charles Ap Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
Pocahontas; or, The Indian maiden. (McLoughlin Bros., 1873), by Paul Pryor (page images at HathiTrust)
The Pocahontas-John Smith Story, by Pocahontas Wight Edmunds, ed. by James H. Bailey (Gutenberg ebook)
The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, by E. Boyd Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
The Princess Pocahontas, by Virginia Watson, illust. by George Wharton Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)
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