The last Indian of Seattle lived in a shack down among the greased piers and coal bunkers of the new city, on what was then called West Street, her hovel in the grip of Puget Sound, off plumb in a ...

Timothy Egan is the award-winning author of several excellent books on 20th century America, winning the National Book Award for “The Worst Hard Times” . In “Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher” Egan ...

You don't have to be a westerner to appreciate Edward Curtis's photos from a hundred years ago. His sepia prints show native people on horseback... May 28, 2014 — You don't have to be a westerner to ...

Timothy Egan is a familiar name to many of us here in Yakima who remember his 2007 visit to give a lecture on "The Worst Hard Time," his National Book Award-winning history of the Dust Bowl. A Seattle ...

Edward Curtis, the famous photographer of Indians, is enjoying a curious revival. His sepia-toned pictures of stoic chiefs, beautiful maidens and romantic figures in the lonely vastness of the ...

Photographer Edward Curtis decided to chronicle the experience of the vanishing Native American tribes at the end of the 19th century. It was an... Catching The 'Shadow' Of A Lost World Photographer ...

First picture -- Encounter on a volcano -- The Big Idea -- Indian Napoleon -- With the President -- In the den of the titan -- Anglos in Indian country -- The artist and his audience -- The Custer ...

How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prizewinning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native ...