The Pale-Face Squaw

Catalog Description *The Pale-Face Squaw: The Last Arrow* by C. Dunning Clark (Beadle's Dime Novels No. 178, May 1873) presents a frontier melodrama set in colonial Virginia. The narrative opens with Braxton Keller abandoning his brother Spencer's infant daughter Marina in the forest, consumed by jealous rage over Spencer's marriage to Maud Carroll and their inheritance of their father's property. A young Shawnee boy, Kee-na-too, discovers the abandoned child and carries her to his tribe's lodge. Meanwhile, Braxton returns to Jamestown with a search party led by Spencer. The physician Roger Boyle, observing Braxton's behavior, deduces his guilt and blackmails him into complicity, threatening exposure. The narrative combines domestic betrayal with frontier peril and colonial Virginia settings.