Wild men [electronic resource] : Ishi and Kroeber in the wilderness of modern America / Douglas C. Sackman.
2010
E99.Y23 S235 2010eb
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Wild men [electronic resource] : Ishi and Kroeber in the wilderness of modern America / Douglas C. Sackman.
ISBN
9780199742509 (electronic book)
9780195178524
9780195178531
9780195178524
9780195178531
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New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 365 p.) : ill.
Call Number
E99.Y23 S235 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
301.2092
Summary
In late August of 1911, from deep within the shadows of a remote canyon in northern California, an Indian of the Yahi people, long-believed to have disappeared, suddenly showed himself. A fugitive, he had hidden for decades from the lethal gaze of white intruders, keeping fires small and wiping the earth clean of his footprints. The sheriff took him into custody, and, having no better place for him, put him in the cell reserved for those who were not quite right in the head-the insane. The man soon aroused local and then national curiosity, and was christened the Wild Man or Wild Indian.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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New narratives in American history.
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Table of Contents
Prologue: One small step
The Yahi in three worlds
The anthropologist in three worlds
"Worlds of stuff"
Making tracks
City lights
Nature walks in the city and the Sierras
The call of the wild
Death mask
Epilogue: The hearth of Prometheus and the wilderness of Ishi
Afterword: Google Earth, earthquake weather.
The Yahi in three worlds
The anthropologist in three worlds
"Worlds of stuff"
Making tracks
City lights
Nature walks in the city and the Sierras
The call of the wild
Death mask
Epilogue: The hearth of Prometheus and the wilderness of Ishi
Afterword: Google Earth, earthquake weather.