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Author

Coward, John M.

Title The newspaper Indian : Native American identity in the press, 1820-90 / John M. Coward.

Imprint

Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c1999.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	302.2308997 C838n	---	Available

Description	viii, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series	History of communication
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Discovery, destiny, and savagery : imagining Indians in America -- Romance and rumor : the Indian in the antebellum press -- Explaining Indian removal -- The Daily Rocky Mountain news and the scandal of Sand Creek -- The war in words : reporting the Fetterman fight -- The making of an Indian villain : Sitting Bull in war and peace -- Indian reformers and the idealized Indian.
Subject	Indians of North America -- Press coverage.
	Journalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN	025206738X (pbk. : alk. paper)
	025202432X (cloth : alk. paper)