Nick of the Woods (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Montgomery Bird
- First Published: 1837
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Adventure
- Time of Work: 1782
- Setting: Kentucky
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Love or romance, Native Americans or American Indians, Violence, American Revolution, Eighteenth century, Adventure, Kentucky, Frontier or pioneer life, Braggarts
- Locales: Kentucky
Characters Discussed
Nathan Slaughter, a Quaker trapper driven by the deaths of his wife and children to a career of violence against the Indians, who call him the Jibbenainosay, meaning Spirit-that-walks. The whites call the unknown avenger Nick of the Woods, not knowing the man is really the peaceful Quaker they ironically name Bloody Nathan.
Captain Roland Forrester, a young Virginia patriot of the Revolutionary War. Disinherited by his Tory uncle, he seeks to start life afresh in the Kentucky country. He is twenty-three. He returns to Virginia when his cousin Edith...
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