With a reporter’s eye for detail, Egan delivers a gracefully written biography and adventure story. Egan portrays the dwindling tribes, their sacred rites (such as the Hopi snake dance), customs, and daily lives, and captures a larger-than-life cast.
Unfailingly sympathetic to his subject, Egan shadows Curtis as he travels from Roosevelt’s summer home at Sagamore Hill to the mesas and canyons of the Southwest tribes and to the rain forests of the Coastal Indians and the isolated tundra on Nunivak Island. Morgan and culminated in a critically acclaimed 20-volume set, The North American Indian, which took Curtis 30 years to complete and left him divorced and destitute. His book on photographer Edward Curtis, SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER, was awarded. His book on the Dust Bowl, THE WORST HARD TIME, won a National Book Award for nonfiction. Yet in 1900, at the height of his fame, Curtis gave it up to pursue what would become his life’s work-“a plan to photograph all the intact Native American tribes left in North America” before their ways of life disappeared. TIMOTHY EGAN is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and the author of ten books, including the forthcoming, A FEVER IN THE HEARTLAND, which will be released on April 4.
In the late 19th century, Edward Curtis was the era’s reigning portrait photographer, so well respected that President Theodore Roosevelt chose him to photograph his daughter’s wedding. ISBN-13: 9780618969029 Summary How a lone man’s epic obsession led to one of America’s greatest cultural treasures: Prizewinning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American historyand the driven, brilliant man who made them. Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times journalist Egan (The Worst Hard Time) turns his attention to one of Seattle’s most remarkable-yet all but forgotten-residents.
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