"A Bear Hunt", 65 (Event)

Page Number: 
65
Order within Page: 
2
First 8-10 words of event: 
Even to some of us - children though we were,
Page Event Ends: 
66
Era: 
Turn of the Century (1890-1913)
Characters Present: 
Narrative Status: 
Narrated
Date: 
Monday, January 1, 1900 to Saturday, December 31, 1910
Summary: 

The narrator recalls the way that, as boys, he and his friends regarded the Indian mound, and their ideas about the unseen Indians who "lived beside it" (65). He compares their childhood sense of the Indians to their awareness of the Civil War and the "Negroes among us" (66).

Chronological Order: 
1.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Childhood:Perspective, Race:Stereotyping, Reading:Dime_Novels, Past:Remembered, Defeat, Race

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