Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

"The Song of Hiawatha," his most ambitious poem, took its content and themes from the legends of Michigan's Ojibwe Indians as collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and its meter from the Finnish epic "Kalevala" as recorded by Elias L ö nnrot.

Spotty History, Maybe, but Great Literature John J. Miller 2010

Longfellow never visted the falls, but he was inspired by the stories of Mary Eastman and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft about American Indian culture and the imagery of the falls VI.

Archive 2009-07-01 Aaron M. Wilson 2009

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was born in Albany County, on the 28th of March, 1793, during the second presidential term of Washington.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist.

The Song of Hiawatha Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1844

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft was born in Albany County, on the 28th of March,

Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828

Legends of North American Indians_, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1856).

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, who made his first trip down the Ohio at this time (1818), remarked: "I mingled in this crowd, and, while listening to the anticipations indulged in, it seemed to me that the war had not, in reality, been fought for 'free trade and sailors' rights 'where it had commenced, but to gain a knowledge of the world beyond the Alleghanies ....

Old Fort Snelling 1819-1858 Marcus L. Hansen