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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Padget, Martin, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Southwest, New--History--19th century.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Southwest, New--History--20th century.

Authors, American--Travel--Southwest, New.

Authors, American.

Artists--Travel--Southwest, New.

Artists.

Travelers' writings.

Historiography.

Artists--Travel.

Authors, American--Travel.

History.

Southwest, New--In literature.

Southwest, New.

New Southwest.

Indians in literature.

Southwest, New--Description and travel.

Southwest, New--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Southwest, New--Historiography.

Physical Description:

xiv, 250 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press : Published in cooperation with William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2004.

Summary:

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, including Helen Hunt Jackson and Charles F. Lummis. He also introduces us to Elbridge Ayer Burbank, an often-overlooked artist who between 1897 and 1917 made thousands of paintings and drawings of Indians from over 140 western tribes. Padget addresses two topics: how the Southwest emerged as a distinctive region in the minds of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Americans, and what impact these conceptions, and the growing presence of Anglos, had on Indians in the region. Popular writers like Jackson and Lummis presented the American Indians as a "primitive culture waiting to be discovered" and experienced firsthand. Later, as Padget shows, Anglo activists for Indian rights, such as Mabel Dodge Luhan and Mary Austin, worked for the acceptance of other views of Native Americans and their cultures.

Contents:

Chapter 1 From Manifest Destiny to Historical Romance: The Southwest in Narratives of Exploration and Travel between the 1840s and 1880s 13

Chapter 2 John Wesley Powell's Mapping of the Colorado Plateau Region 47

Chapter 3 Travel Writing, Sentimental Romance, and Indian Rights Advocacy: The Politics of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona 79

Chapter 4 Travel, Exoticism, and the Writing of Region: Charles Fletcher Lummis and the "Creation" of the Southwest 115

Chapter 5 Burbank among the Indians: The Politics of Patronage 137

Chapter 6 "Indian Detours off the Beaten Track": Cultural Tourism and the Southwest 169

Conclusion: Reflections on Traveling through the Southwest 211.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-244) and index.

ISBN:

0826330282

OCLC:

53939391