This anthology of early American literature contains work by the following authors: Native American Accounts, Viking sagas, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Pedro de Castaneda, Captain John Smith, William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Don Antonio de Otormin, Sarah Whipple Goodhue, Mary Rowlandson, Cotton Mather, Sarah Kemble Knight, Jonathan Edwards, Mary Jemison, Pontiac, Samson Occom, Phillis Wheatley, Mercy Otis Warren, Anna Young Smith, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Abigail Adams, Lemuel Haynes, Jupiter Hammon, Benjamin Franklin, J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Francisco Palou, Olaudah Equiano, Hendrick Aupaumut, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, James M. Nack, William Apess, Caroline Kirkland, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sarah Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, and Laura Bridgman.
