| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - olence of these commercially-geared texts were a direct influence and precursor to the popular dime novels and cowboy and Indian movies of the early twentieth century.21 Yet, captivity, in the words of historian John Demos, meant 'contact' of a particularly vivid sort.22 In other words, captivity narratives were, at their heart, stories of the encounter between Euro-North Americans and Aborigi
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