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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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ISBN 10 : 0618969020
Pages : 370 pages
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A narrative account of the pioneering photographer's life-risking effort to document a disappearing North American Indian nation offers insight into the danger and resolve behind his venture, his elevation to an impassioned advocate and the posthumous discovery of his considerable achievements. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Big Burn. 75,000 first printing.

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan

A narrative account of the pioneering photographer's life-risking effort to document a disappearing North American Indian nation offers insight into the danger and resolve behind his venture, his elevation to an impassioned advocate and the posthumous discovery of his considerable achievements. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Big Burn. 75,000

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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan

“A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . Egan’s spirited biography might just bring [Curtis] the recognition that eluded him in life.” —Washington Post Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer, the Annie Leibovitz of his time. He moved in

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The Shadow Catcher

The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins

Inspired by the life of legendary photographer Edward Curtis, a series of tales about a photographer's developing relationship with the Native Americans he astonishes by showing them pictures of themselves is interspersed with parallel tales about an unsung soldier, a husband, and a father. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

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The Big Burn

The Big Burn by Timothy Egan

National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds

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The Worst Hard Time

The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan

In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since. Following

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Indian Days of the Long Ago

Indian Days of the Long Ago by E.S. Curtis,F.N. Wilson

Illustrated with photographs by the author and drawings by F.N. Wilson

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Sacred Legacy

Sacred Legacy by Edward S. Curtis,Christopher Cardozo

Presents more than two hundred of the author's acclaimed images of Native American life, accompanied by commentary on his landmark work and its significance in terms of shaping the ways in which we view Native American culture.

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The Last Great Road Bum

The Last Great Road Bum by Héctor Tobar

One of the Los Angeles Times Top 10 California Books of 2020. One of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Fiction Books from 2020. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence and the Joyce Carol Oates prize. One of Exile in Bookville’s Favorite Books of 2020. In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar

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Shadow Catcher

Shadow Catcher by Laurie Lawlor,Edward S. Curtis

Sixty of Edward Curtis' photographs are included in this story of his life and the Native American cultures he studied early in the twentieth century, creating what is still the most extensive and informative collection of its kind.

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The Good Rain

The Good Rain by Timothy Egan

A fantastic book! Timothy Egan describes his journeys in the Pacific Northwest through visits to salmon fisheries, redwood forests and the manicured English gardens of Vancouver. Here is a blend of history, anthropology and politics.

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Edward S Curtis and the North American Indian Incorporated

Edward S Curtis and the North American Indian Incorporated by Mick Gidley

From the 1890s onward, Edward S. Curtis took thousands of photographs of Native Americans all over the West. These were published (1907-1930) in twenty volumes of illustrated text and twenty portfolios of photographs; the project was supported by Theodore Roosevelt and funded in part by J. Pierpont Morgan, and spawned

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Breaking Blue

Breaking Blue by Timothy Egan

“No one who enjoys mystery can fail to savor this study of a classic case of detection.” —TONY HILLERMAN On the night of September 14, 1935, George Conniff, a town marshal in Pend Oreille County in the state of Washington, was shot to death. A lawman had been killed, yet there seemed

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The Shadow Catcher

The Shadow Catcher by Hipolito Acosta,Lisa Pulitzer

In this gritty expose, a firsthand look inside U.S. undercover operations targeting the immigrant smuggling, counterfeiting, and drug rings of Mexico's dangerous mafia.

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Edward S Curtis

Edward S Curtis by Christopher Cardozo,A. D. Coleman,Eric Jolly,Louise Erdrich,Michael Tobias

Introduction: the artistry of Edward Curtis / Christopher Cardozo -- A path of beauty, heart, and soul / Christopher Cardozo -- Enriching the world one photograph at a time / A.D. Coleman -- Plates -- Curtis and pictorialism / Christopher Cardozo -- A collective act of stewardship / Eric J. Jolly -- Intensity of

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The Master Prints

The Master Prints by Edward S. Curtis,Clark Worswick

A noted photographer of Native Americans for more than 30 years, Curtis documented more than 80 tribes. This collection includes Curtis's never-before-seen master prints and other prints that comprised his last great exhibition in 1906. 75 full-color photos.

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