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Paperback. Analyses the works of Anglo writers and artists who encountered American Indians in the course of their travels in the Southwest during the one-hundred-year period beginning in 1840. This book looks at the accounts produced by government-sponsored explorers, and surveys the writers who popularised the region in fiction and travelogue. Num Pages: 250 pages, 24 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
This book analyses the works of Anglo writers and artists who encountered American Indians in the course of their travels in the Southwest during the one-hundred-year period beginning in 1840. Martin Padget looks first at the accounts produced by government-sponsored explorers, most notably John Wesley Powell's writings about the Colorado Plateau. He goes on to survey the writers who popularised the region in fiction and travelogue, including Helen Hunt Jackson and Charles F Lummis. He also introduces us to Eldridge Ayer Burbank, an often-overlooked artist who between 1897 and 1917 made thousands of paintings and drawings of Indians from over ... Read more
This book analyses the works of Anglo writers and artists who encountered American Indians in the course of their travels in the Southwest during the one-hundred-year period beginning in 1840. Martin Padget looks first at the accounts produced by government-sponsored explorers, most notably John Wesley Powell's writings about the Colorado Plateau. He goes on to survey the writers who popularised the region in fiction and travelogue, including Helen Hunt Jackson and Charles F Lummis. He also introduces us to Eldridge Ayer Burbank, an often-overlooked artist who between 1897 and 1917 made thousands of paintings and drawings of Indians from over ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826330291
SKU
V9780826330291
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Ref
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About Martin Padget
Martin Padget is a lecturer in American Studies in the Department of English at the University of Wales.
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