Catlin's Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature by John Hausdoerffer

Catlin's Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature

John Hausdoerffer

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George Catlin gained renown for his nineteenth-century paintings of Indians and their lands, sympathetic portraits that counterbalanced those of other Americans eager to conquer and dominate both. In this first book to probe the attitudes that sha...

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