Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Steven D. Hoelscher, Paul S. Boyer (Foreword by)Series:Studies in American Thought and Culture (Paperback)Publish date:2008-07-18Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299226046ISBN-10:299226042UPC:9780299226046Book Category:Photography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, United States, Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasBook Topic:Regional, State & LocalSize:9.80 x 7.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC4BA1NMWQ
Picturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H. H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells
Today a tourist mecca, the area now known as the Wisconsin Dells was once wilderness--and a gathering place for the region's Native peoples, the Ho-Chunk, who for centuries migrated to this part of the Wisconsin River for both sustenance and spiritual renewal. By the late 1800s their numbers had dwindled through displacement or forcible removal, and it was this smaller band that caught the...
Series: Studies in American Thought and Culture (Paperback)
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299226046ISBN-10:299226042UPC:9780299226046Book Category:Photography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, United States, Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasBook Topic:Regional, State & LocalSize:9.80 x 7.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SC4BA1NMWQ
Steven D. Hoelscher is associate professor of American studies and geography at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Heritage on Stage: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America's Little Switzerland, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
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