Most striking, however, is that all of the models are notably white-skinned women. Pictures of cowgirls, adventure heroines and outlaw women were first produced for wildwest, rodeo and vaudeville shows, dime novels and monograms as a means to promote sales. Playing Indian was an opportunity for white women to escape the conventional and often restrictive boundaries of society. These performances mimicked the fantasy of the Native huntress and warrior as imagined in the minds of nineteenth century onlookers. However, the relationship between these three stereotypical incarnations is not strictly temporal.
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