Eastman, Mary H[enderson]

Eastman, Mary H[enderson]( 1818–80),
as a result of knowing Indians at the frontier posts where her husband, Colonel Seth Eastman, was stationed, wrote Dacotah; or, Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling (1849), The Romance of Indian Life (1852), and Chicora, and Other Regions of the Conquerors and Conquered (1854), books which he illustrated, as he did some works by Schoolcraft. As a native Virginian she wrote the novel Aunt Phillis's Cabin; or, Southern Life as It Is (1852), a popular reply to Uncle Tom's Cabin.