Elbert H. Smith



Elbert H. Smith was an American poet.

Life
Smith was the author of the best selling epic poem Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak in 1839.

Publications

 * The History of Black Hawk, With which is interwoven a description of the Black Hawk War, and other scenes in the West. Milwaukee, WI: privately printed, 1846.
 * Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk, and scenes in the West: A national poem in six cantos. New York: Edward Kearney, 1848.
 * New York: privately published, 1849.
 * Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press,