Curtis spent the best part of his life-nearly thirty years-documenting what he considered to be the traditional way of life for Indians living in the trans-Mississippi West. He took more than 40,000 photographs, collected more than 350 traditional Indian tales, and made more than 10,000 sound recordings of Indian speeches and music His magnum opus was The North American Indian. (Pritzker, Edward S. Curtis, 6).
| Author: Frederick Webb Hodge
| Publisher: North American Book Distributors, Llc