Southern Illinois University Edwardsville SPARK Theses, Dissertations, and Culminating Projects Graduate School 1967 The prairie-bird by Charles Augustus Murray edited with an introduction and notes Donald Dean Miner Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Follow this and additional works at: https://spark.siue.edu/etd Recommended Citation Miner, Donald Dean, "The prairie-bird by Charles Augustus Murray edited with an introduction and notes" (1967). Theses, Dissertations, and Culminating Projects. 39. https://spark.siue.edu/etd/39 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at SPARK. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses, Dissertations, and Culminating Projects by an authorized administrator of SPARK. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY Department of English THE PRAIRIE-BIRD by CHARLES AUGUSTUS MURRAY Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Donald Dean Miner A thesis presented to the Graduate Board of Southern Illinois University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts August, 1967 Edwardsville, Illinois TABLE OF CONTENTS Page EDITOR'S PREPACE ill EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION: CHARLES AUGUSTUS MURRAY AND THE WESTERN FRONTIER iv THE PRAIRIE-BIRD ........ complete text supplied in microfilm NOTES TO TEXT 1 SOURCES CONSULTED 36 ii PREFACE In January, 1844, Charles Augustus Murray's The Prairie-Bird was published in three volumes in London by R. Bentley. In 1845 It was reissued, this time as a single volume. The present edition is based on the 1845 printing. There has been no attempt to correct the numer ous typographical errors of that edition.