[3] In 1821 she immigrated to the Red River Colony/Selkirk settlement (in the portion of Rupertsland that would, in 1870, become Manitoba, Canada) with her widowed mother and three siblings.
[1] Snelling expressed frank opinions on American society and proposed social reforms, earning him both praise and enmity.
He was sued for libel and fought back by publishing his editorials in pamphlet form, called "Exposé of the Vice of Gaming", in 1833.
His interesting work delineated scenes and experiences beyond the frontier, giving graphic pictures of his life far away from any civilized community, was then in process of printing, and was, I believe, the first book he ever issued.
[6] In "The Last of the Iron Hearts", Snelling wrote, "[We] beg leave to assure our readers, that the Indian is not the ferocious brute of Hubbard and Mather, or the brilliant, romantic, half-French, half-Celtic Mohegan and Yemassee created by Symmes and Cooper.
Theophilus Parsons, author of "Deux Homo" and "The Infinite and the Finite," and for many years Professor of Law in Harvard College, was one.
We believe no attack was made upon him; the matter became a nine days' wonder, and after that Snelling edited, for a brief period, a paper called the Censor, in New York.
Stimson, took charge of the Galaxy in 1838, and managed it till they sought "other fields and pastures green.In the spring of 1838, Snelling left Boston for New York City, with some regret.
Snelling spent most of the next nine years in New York City, but returned to his home town in 1847 to become editor of the Boston Herald, a position he held until his death in late 1848.
[12] For a short time, he also was editor of the Polyanthos,[13] and worked as a writer for Wooldridge's Whip and Satirist of New-York and Brooklin in 1842.
[15] Through the Sunday Flash, Snelling developed a notorious reputation for his pioneering role in what Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle and Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz describe as the "Flash Press," New York City "small weekly newspapers ... aimed to entertain and enlighten literate sporting men about leisure-time activities and erotic entertainments available" in that city, especially in the period from late 1841 to early 1843.
"Distinguished by a trenchant, mocking humor and a titillating brew of gossip about prostitutes, theatrical denizens, and sports contests, the papers offered guidance to men young and old intent on navigating the new world of unrestricted pleasure and commercialized leisure in the city.
[1] "Within four hours after the death of Mr. Snelling, his father-in-law, Mr. Simon Jordan, (with whom Mr. S. lived,) fell from his chair and suddenly expired also.
He was a lawyer and a writer, and in his latter profession distinguished himself as a keen, powerful, but vindictive satirist: his wit, too, was as pointed and brilliant as his sarcasm, and his observation of men and things was quick and vigorous.
His Tales of the North-west, which first brought him into notice some ten years since, -- in short, all his prose articles as well as his poetry, -- have always found a ready publication, and numerous and admiring readers.
From his ill success in life, his poverty, and his disappointments, he flew to the last and worst expedient of drowning sorrow, by drinking deep from the bowl of the drunkard.
Remorse then did its work and William J. Snelling, the man of genius and education, was found, first a drunkard in the watch-house, then a volunteer petitioner at the Police Court, begging that he might "be placed out of the public view for six month."
In 1923, Fred Lewis Pattee wrote that "his Indian stories are undoubtedly the best written during the early period [of American literature]"[20] Contemporary biographer Mary R. Reichardt credits Snelling with "creating .