Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840-1935

by Martin Padget

Book Overview

Indian Country 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. 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 popularized the region in fiction and travelogue,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826330290
• ISBN13: 9780826330291
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.0" x 9.0"