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Thorpe was born in Westfield, Massachussets. He was the son of the Rev. Thomas Thorpe.
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Thorpe was born in Westfield, Massachussets. He was the son of the Rev. Thomas Thorpe.
He attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut from 1834 until 1837, and while at college gave evidence of artistic and literary talent. Thorpe's struggles with illness, however, prevented him from graduating.
At the age of sixteen he painted a picture illustrating Washington Irving's "Bold Dragoon" which, after exhibition at the New York Academy of Fine Arts, was hung in Irving's home in Tarrytown. The years in Louisiana marked the period of his greatest productivity.
At once at home in the South, he soon won the genuine love and admiration not only of rough backwoodsmen but also of Southern statesmen. In his Baton Rouge studio he divided his time between brush and pencil. Sketches and vivid paintings of life on the prairies, portraits of such famous personages as Jenny Lind, Joseph Walker, and Zachary Taylor, filled his studio. His masterpiece, the full-length portrait of President Taylor, was purchased by the state legislature and the House of Representatives.
The same talent for careful observation and accurate portrayal that made him a fine painter of scenery rendered him a descriptive writer of power and distinction in American literature.
The first of Thorpe's realistic sketches to achieve international acclaim, Tom Owen, The Bee-Hunter (later used by Thorpe as a pseudonym) was translated into French, Italian, and German, and was published and praised in the best English periodicals. Decidedly the most humorous and critically the most important of all Thorpe's stories was the "Big Bear of Arkansas" which first appeared in the New York Spirit of the Times, March 27, 1841. In this tall tale Thorpe achieved the first great piece of genuinely "Western" humor; in addition to telling a good story he sustained a continuous and racy exaggeration that marked a new phase in American humor. Representative of his local color descriptive work are "The Prairies of Louisiana, " "Wild Turkey Hunting, " "Watercraft of the Backwoods, " etc. Many of these were later collected under the titles Mysteries of the Backwoods (1846), and The Hive of the Bee-Hunter (1854).
He was with General Taylor at Matamoras in 1846 and his books, Our Army on the Rio Grande (1846), Our Army at Monterey (1847), and The Taylor Anecdote Book (1848), grew out of these experiences. In 1853 he returned to New York City where he contributed frequently to many prominent periodicals. In 1860 he was co-proprietor and coeditor of the New York Spirit of the Times. During the Civil War he served as staff officer to Gen. B. F. Butler with rank of colonel of volunteers (1862), and was surveyor of the port of New Orleans.
After the war he was city surveyor in New York, and chief of the warehouse department of the New York Custom House from 1869 until his death. Thorpe's other published works are: The Master's House (1854); Lynde Weiss, An Autobiography (1852); A Voice to America (1855); Reminiscences of Charles L. Elliott (1868). His stories appeared in two anthologies to which they gave titles, The Big Bear of Arkansas (1845), collected and edited by William T. Porter, and Colonel Thorpe's Scenes in Arkansaw (1858).
Thomas Bangs Thorpe is best known for the short story "The Big Bear of Arkansas", which was first published in the periodical Spirit of the Times in 1841. Thorpe's 1854 anti-slavery novel The Master's House focuses on a young man from North Carolina who was educated at a college in New England, then moved to Louisiana with his slaves and established a plantation there. The novel is important for its depiction of slave-trading and its mild, but persuasive, critique of slavery.
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Thorpe had a great fondness for politics: he held minor offices and frequently "stumped" for his friends, particularly for Taylor. His speeches and writing show a thorough knowledge of statesmen and politics of his day. He conducted a number of Whig newspapers in Louisiana either alone or with associates: in 1843, the Concordia Intelligencer; in 1845, the New Orleans Commercial Times; in 1846, the New Orleans Daily Tropic; in 1847, the Baton Rouge Conservative; in 1850, the Batesville Eagle.
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R. W. Griswold's evaluation of Thorpe in his Prose Writers of America (1847) is excellent: "He has a genuine relish for the sports and pastimes of southern frontier life, and describes them with remarkable freshness and skill of light and shade. No one enters more heartily into all the whims and grotesque humours of the backwoodsman, or brings him more actually or clearly before us".
Thorpe was married but little is known of his wife.
