America's most prolific photographer of Native Americans

By Barry Pritzker. Copyright 1993, published by Crescent Books, Avenel, New Jersey. Large 10 1/2 x 14 1/2 format, hardcover, with dust jacket, 112 pages. Features over 80 black and white photographs, plus text. The back of the dust jacket, and its inside back flap and cover board, show a small, very light stain. There is a small tear at the bottom of the back of the dust jacket that has been repaired with archival tape. The photographs in this book are wonderful.

Edward S. Curtis, played a major role in shaping the view of Indians as "noble savages," members of a vanishing race. His Herculean effort left us a comprehensive record of all of the important tribes in the United States.