Montana: Lanterns On The Prairie - The Blackfeet Photographs Of Walter McClintock

Montana: Lanterns On The Prairie - The Blackfeet Photographs Of Walter McClintock   Edited by Steven L. Grafe   2009   University of Oklahoma Press   Walter McClintock (1870-1949) arrived on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana in the summer of 1898 with a wax cylinder recorder and visions of a grand Indianist opera. The libretto was to be based on the legend of Poia (“Scarface”) and the melodic themes to be inspired by Blackfeet songs. McClintock and...

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