“Indian Legends of Early Days” recounts in verse stories that were told to Martin by her grandmother, including "Oneidas", "The Lost Arrow", "Skaneateles", and "Pocahontas".
Jasper Parrish, (a grandsire) was a missionary and trader among the six tribes, and during his sojourn among them he so endeared himself to all, they named him Sen-ne-oc-ta-wa, meaning "Good Man," and ever after his descendants had only to say that name and every care and kindness was cheerfully given them that the Indians were able to bestow.The story, “The Lost Arrow” tells of a Six Nations warrior Os-sa-hin-ta, who is given a special arrowhead of “red flint flecked and streaked with white” that ensures prosperity for its owner.
[7] The novel was reviewed by The Publishers' Weekly in 1908: He goes to other places in a purely unscientific and unimaginative manner, and returns after ten years, to "smash up" on his own Indiana farm, and to eat his Christmas dinner at his wife's side.
[8]A list of Science Fiction and Utopias by Women, 1818–1949 compiled by L. Timmel Duchamp includes A Pilgrims Progress in Other Worlds.
Martin does indeed examine women's role in society, but the overarching project is Dantesque without the demons: to explore the layers and levels of Christian ideology across the extended metaphor of a solar system.