@article{892377,
      author = {Barbour, Chad A.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/892377},
      title = {From Daniel Boone to Captain America : playing Indian in  American popular culture /},
      abstract = {"From nineteenth-century American art and literature to  comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, in  From Daniel Boone to Captain America Chad Barbour examines  the transmission of the ideals and myths of the frontier  and playing Indian in American culture. In the nineteenth  century, American art and literature developed and nurtured  images of the Indian and the frontiersman that exemplified  ideals of heroism, bravery, and manhood, as well as  embodying fears of betrayal, loss of civilization, and  weakness. In the twentieth century, comic books, among  other popular forms of media, would inherit these images.  The Western genre of comic books participated fully in that  genre's conventions, replicating and perpetuating the myths  and ideals long associated with the frontier in the United  States. A fascination with Native Americans was also  present in comic books devoted to depicting the Indian past  of the U.S. In such stories, the Indian is always a figure  of the past, romanticized as a lost segment of U.S.  history, ignoring contemporary and actual Native peoples.  Playing Indian occupies a definite subgenre of the Western  comics, especially during the postwar period when a host of  comics featuring a "white Indian" as the hero were being  published. Playing Indian migrates into superhero comics, a  phenomenon that heightens and amplifies the notions of  heroism, bravery, and manhood already attached to the white  Indian trope. Instances of superheroes like Batman and  Superman playing Indian correspond with the depictions  found in the strictly Western comics. The superhero as  Indian is revived in the twenty-first century via Captain  America, attesting to the continuing power of this ideal  and image."--},
      recid = {892377},
      pages = {x, 212 pages :},
}