Indian country
Subtitle: travels in the American Southwest, 1840-1935
By: Martin Padget.
Edition: 1st paperbound printing.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780826330291
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- History -- 19th century.; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- History -- 20th century.; Authors, American -- Travel -- Southwest, New.; Artists -- Travel -- Southwest, New.; Travelers' writings.; Indians in literature.; Southwest, New -- Description and travel.; Southwest, New -- Social life and customs.; Southwest, New -- Historiography.; Southwest, New -- In literature.
Other titles: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840-1935
Notes: "Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: From Manifest Destiny to Historical Romance: The Southwest in Narratives of Exploration and Travel between the 1840s and 1880s; title: John Wesley Powell's Mapping of the Colorado Plateau Region; title: Travel Writing, Sentimental Romance, and Indian Rights Advocacy: The Politics of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona; title: Travel, Exoticism, and the Writing of Region: Charles Fletcher Lummis and the "Creation" of the Southwest; title: Burbank among the Indians: The Politics of Patronage; title: Indian Detours off the Beaten Track: Cultural Tourism and the Southwest; title: Conclusion: Reflections on Traveling through the Southwest.