Details
Title Daviess, Mrs.
Alternate title Mrs. Davies [sic]
Publisher [Philadelphia? : s.n.]
Date [1860?]
Physical description 1 print : tinted lithograph ; 9.1 x 15.7 cm.
Description Full-length portrait of the back of Mrs. Daviess, holding a shotgun aimed at an Indian man stepping through a doorway.
Notes In Frost, John. Daring and heroic deeds of American women (Philadelphia, 1860), plate following p. 206.
Mrs. Daviess was the wife of the late 18th-century Kentucky pioneer Samuel Daviess. She tricked her potential captor into setting down his gun, which she then used to hold him hostage.
Genre Portrait prints -- 1860-1869.
Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1860-1869.
Subject Daviess, Mrs. -- Portraits.
Women.
Indian captivities.
Indians of North America.
Frontier and pioneer life.