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Author Padget, Martin, 1964-

Title Indian country : travels in the American Southwest, 1840-1935 / Martin Padget.

Imprint Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  917.90204 P133i 2004    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xiv, 250 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Note "Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-244) and index.
Contents From Manifest Destiny to Historical Romance: The Southwest in Narratives of Exploration and Travel between the 1840s and 1880s -- John Wesley Powell's Mapping of the Colorado Plateau Region -- Travel Writing, Sentimental Romance, and Indian Rights Advocacy: The Politics of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona -- Travel, Exoticism, and the Writing of Region: Charles Fletcher Lummis and the "Creation" of the Southwest -- Burbank among the Indians: The Politics of Patronage -- Indian Detours off the Beaten Track: Cultural Tourism and the Southwest -- Conclusion: Reflections on Traveling through the Southwest.
Summary Analyzes 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.
Subject Southwest, New -- Description and travel.
Southwest, New -- Social life and customs.
Southwest, New -- Historiography.
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- History -- 19th century.
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.
Authors, American -- Travel -- Southwest, New.
Artists -- Travel -- Southwest, New.
Travelers' writings.
Southwest, New -- In literature.
Indians in literature.
Artists -- Travel. (OCoLC)fst00817631
Authors, American -- Travel. (OCoLC)fst00821781
Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
Indians in literature. (OCoLC)fst00969419
Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
Travelers' writings. (OCoLC)fst01155719
New Southwest. (OCoLC)fst01244556
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Travel writing. (OCoLC)fst01919983
Travel writing.
ISBN 0826330282 (alk. paper)
9780826330284 (alk. paper)
0826330290 (pbk.)
9780826330291 (pbk.)

 
    
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