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Sealsfield, Charles

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | 658 words | Copyright

Sealsfield, Charles, alias of Karl Postl (1793–1864), Moravian‐born monk, who escaped from his monastery to become an author in Switzerland. During his various journeys to the U.S. (1824–25), 1826, 1827–32, 1837, 1850, 1853–58), he was upon occasion a merchant and a journalist. He was most famous for his depictions of frontier life in the Southwest and for his humanitarian championing of the Indians. Among his translated works are The Americans as They Are (1828), The United States as They Are (1828), Tokeah; or, The White Rose (1828), The Cabin Book; or, Sketches of Life in Texas (1844), and Frontier Life (1856).

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