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Acknowledgments This book comes out of a long personal engagement with Curtis’s expansive project, an engagement that resulted in the publication of the anthology referred to in the preface, a number of essays, and Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated (1998).2 I would like to acknowledge the considerable help I have received. I was granted fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, that together gave me the time and opportunity to research and write up my findings. I received periods of study leave from the universities of Exeter and Leeds, and financial assistance from the American Philosophical Society, the British Academy, and the U.S. Information Service. The Burke Museum at the University of Washington, Seattle, provided welcome hospitality for an academic year at the beginning of my work. Numerous archives and private collectors, many of them listed in the references, gave generous help, either face to face or at long distance, in tracing documents reproduced here. Needless to say, the citation of a library or archive—even of a named librarian or archivist—is an inadequate acknowledgment of the many acts of personal kindness I experienced from individuals associated with these much valued institutions. The families of Edward Curtis and of some of his associates were unfailingly helpful and gracious—particularly, in the case of this book, James Graybill, Curtis’s grandson, and W. W. Phillips II and Brian Phillips, descendants of W. W. Phillips. I would also like to express my sincere thanks to the owners of materials used, each of whom is cited in the references, and to the editors and publishers of earlier works of my own that are now incorporated, in revised form, here; these too are appropriately referenced. Scholars and writers interested in Curtis and The North American Indian seem, invariably, to be pleasant people. I have benefited from contact with this small communityand,inconnectionwiththisbook,wouldliketomentionA.D.Coleman, James Faris,Bill Holm,Martha Kennedy,Anne Makepeace,George Quimby,Martha Sandweiss, Alan Trachtenberg, Gerald Vizenor, Gloria Cranmer Webster, and the two anonymous readers for the University of Nebraska Press. I am fortunate that my family—my original family, my in-laws, and my immediate family—has been wonderfully supportive; the dedication is an inadequate recognition of this fact. It is far, far from a mere duty that I must again, and most of all, give thanks for and to Nancy, my partner and wife. xi ...

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