Capt. Charles Howard is a pseudonym for T.C. Harbaugh.
Republished under title "Phil Hunter, the boy slayer, or, The Shawnee maid's sacrifice" in Beadle's pocket novels, no. 87 (1877), and "Phil, the boy marksman, or, The Shawnee maid's sacrifice" in Beadle's boy's library, octavo edition, numbers 306 (1890) (Johannsen, volume I, page 177, numbers 87; volume I, page 339, numbers 306).
Johannsen gives publication date as March 4, 1873.
Cover imprint varies: "Frank Starr & Co., 41 Platt Street, N.Y. New England News Co., Boston, Mass."
Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.