Short nights of the Shadow Catcher : the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis / Timothy Egan.

"Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At onc...

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