John Dunn Hunter

Hunter claimed to be ignorant of his birthplace[2] and that he was taken prisoner with two other white children by Native Americans who either belonged to or were associated with the Kickapoo nation.

[6] Having lived at the same boarding house for a time in 1824, Neal wrote about him in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine,[4]: 148–149  the most important literary periodical in 1820s Great Britain according to early American literature scholar William B.

"[8] The same year he said in the same magazine: As for what Mr John D. Hunter (who knows nothing at all of the Indian History—or the designs of the American government) may say about "his countrymen being the worst enemies of his plan," it is all trumpery and stuff.

[4]: 148–149  In 1831, he published a short story called "The Adventurer"—a fictional autobiography meant to satirize Hunter's memoir.

[1][11] Hunter arrived in Mexico City on March 19, 1826[1] but regretfully returned to Texas April 1826 with news of his failure.