Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher (48 page)

Curtis’s domestic strife, details from divorce papers,
Curtis v. Curtis,
on file at King County courthouse, Seattle.

Traveling party load, and how he works, “conditions cannot be changed,” from Curtis
undated typescript in Meany papers.

Children’s point of view in Canyon de Chelly, from Boesen and Graybill,
Edward S. Curtis: Photographer of the North American Indian,
and recollections in UW Library, Special Collections.

More descriptions of Canyon de Chelly, from the author’s visit, and author’s visits
to Chinle and nearby Old Oraibi.

Curtis quotes, “on the move,” from UW lecture recollections.

Storms, weather, from untitled and undated Curtis speech on how he works, in Meany
papers.

Snake Dance, from Meany papers, undated. Snake around his neck, from Curtis’s written
program for the picture opera.

Snake Dance, additional information, from
NAI,
Vol. XII.

Snake Dance, letter from Curtis to Hodge, September 27, 1906, Hodge papers, Southwest
Museum.

8. THE ARTIST AND HIS AUDIENCE

How to write, from Curtis class lecture at UW.

Curtis letter to Morgan, August 17, 1906, from Morgan Library.

Curtis on writing Vol. I of
NAI,
from letter to Morgan, November 17, 1906.

Morgan and early panic, from Strouse,
Morgan: American Financier.

Curtis introduction, from
NAI,
Vol. I.

Curtis to Meany, November 5, 1907, Meany papers.

Curtis to Meany, November 11, 1907, Meany papers.

Vanishing race, Curtis description, from Curtis letter to Burke, January 26, 1906,
UW Library, Special Collections, various letters in Curtis file.

Phillips quote, “insanely optimistic,” as told by Curtis in a letter to Meany, September
4, 1907.

Smithsonian rejection, from Charles Walcott letter to Curtis, April 16, 1907, Smithsonian
archives.

Brown University rejection, from Curtis letter to Hodge on “so much to say,” December
1, 1907, Hodge papers, Southwest Museum.

T.R. introduction, from
NAI,
Vol. I.

Curtis on Navajo, “American Bedouins,” from
NAI,
Vol. I.

Losing track of chemicals, framing a picture a certain way, from class lecture at
UW.

Imogen Cunningham, from article on Seattle Art Museum show of Cunningham’s work,
Seattle Times,
August 30, 2009.

Working till last cable car, from Phillips’s unpublished notes on Curtis in Gidley,
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field
.

Review of Waldorf-Astoria show, from
Craftsman,
March 1906.

Apache and Navajo details, from
NAI,
Vol. I.

The Upshaw conversation from Curtis, “Vanishing Indian Types,”
Scribner’s,
June 1906.

Curtis on nature of “savages,” from field notes, 1906, Morgan Library archives.

Curtis on wanting to keep nudes in
NAI,
from his letter to Hodge, June 26, 1907.

Greene on “most interesting person in New York,” from Strouse,
Morgan: American Financier.

Morgan quote on Wall Street, from
The American Past,
by Roger Butterfield, Simon & Schuster, 1966.

Curtis letter to Meany, August 20, 1907, on Seattle gang not appreciating him, from
Meany papers.

Meany letter to Curtis, August 25, 1907, on “greatest literary achievement,” from
Meany papers.

Ayers comments, fifty men, from Curtis letter to Hodge, December 17, 1907, Hodge papers,
Southwest Museum.

Morgan saves capitalism, from Strouse,
Morgan: American Financier,
and from
The Panic of 1907,
by Robert F. Bruner and Sean D. Carr, John Wiley and Sons, 2007.

Morgan letter, November 7, 1907, Morgan Library archives.

Review of first two volumes of
NAI,
from
New York Times,
June 6, 1908.

Comparison of Curtis’s work to King James Bible,
New York Herald,
June 16, 1907.

Curtis compared to Audubon,
Independent,
August 20, 1908.

Curtis hailed further, from
Chicago Unity,
July 30, 1908.

9. THE CUSTER CONUNDRUM

Curtis on Little Bighorn battlefield, from his own notes, on file at UW Library, Special
Collections, where he discusses retracing battlefield with Sioux, with Two Moons of
the Cheyenne, with Crow and with General Charles A. Woodruff.

Physical descriptions of the battlefield, from the author’s two trips to the site.

Alexander Upshaw, from
Between Indian and White Worlds: The Cultural Broker,
by Margaret Connell Szasz, University of Oklahoma Press, 2001, and from “Native Agency
and the Making of the North American Indian: Alexander Upshaw and Edward S. Curtis,”
by Shamoon Zamir,
American Indian Quarterly,
Fall 2007.

Custer account, from
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn,
by Nathaniel Philbrick, Viking, 2010.

Crazy Horse, from
NAI,
Vol. III, and from
The Killing of Crazy Horse,
by Thomas Powers, Knopf, 2010.

Cheyenne, and Sand Creek massacre description, from
NAI,
Vol. VI.

Later Curtis account, all his findings on the battle that were not included in
NAI,
from
The Papers of Edward S. Curtis Relating to Custer’s Last Battle,
edited by James S. Hutchins, Upton and Sons, 2000, on file at the Library of Congress.

Other Custer and Curtis comments, from
NAI,
Vol. III.

Upshaw’s temptations, from the Carlisle School’s website:
www.home.epix.net/~landis/history.html
.

Upshaw on his white wife and his work with Curtis, from Hearings Before the Committee
on Indian Affairs in the Senate, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908.

Upshaw and Carlisle School philosophy, from Carlisle School’s website.

Patronizing letter from Indian agent Z. Lewis Dalby to Upshaw, July 13, 1907, from
records at Hearings Before the Committee on Indian Affairs in the Senate, U.S. Government
Printing Office, 1908.

Dalby’s view of Crow, from Senate hearings transcript, ibid., 1908.

Curtis predicting Upshaw would go to the “god of his fathers,” from class lecture
at UW.

Hal’s typhoid fever, from his sister’s account in Boesen and Graybill,
Edward S. Curtis: Photographer of the North American Indian,
and from Curtis’s letters of that summer.

The starving Sioux, from Meany,
Seattle Times,
August 11, 1907.

Curtis’s work schedule, summary of the work to date, from letter to Belle da Costa
Greene, 1913, Morgan Library archives.

Curtis letter to Meany, “anything published” on Custer, October 22, 1907, and all
subsequent letters of that fall and winter, from UW Library, Special Collections.
Letters from Curtis to Meany, from Meany papers.

Interview of Custer,
New York Herald,
November 10, 1907.

Curtis and Pinchot’s back and forth on Custer, quoted in Gidley,
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated.

Roosevelt letter, April 8, 1908, from
Letters of Theodore Roosevelt.

Curtis letter to army colonel re “facts,” from Curtis’s Library of Congress file.

Curtis letter to Meany, “very guarded,” August 28, 1908, Meany papers.

Custer, final words and final form of the chapter on the battle, from
NAI,
Vol III.

10. THE MOST REMARKABLE MAN

“Great and loyal friend,” from
NAI,
Vol. IV.

Letters, and “fine man,” from Dalby letter, September 15, 1907, in government transcript
of Senate hearings in 1908.

Meany and Upshaw on a train, Meany letter to Curtis, August 11, 1907, Meany papers.

Upshaw’s value, letter from Curtis to Hodge, December 26, 1907, Hodge papers, Southwest
Museum.

Scholarly value of the Crow volume, from Zamir, “Native Agency and the Making of the
North American Indian: Alexander Upshaw and Edward S. Curtis.”

Descriptions of Crow, from
NAI,
Vol. IV.

Description of Crow reservation, from the author’s visit to Crow Agency, Montana.

Description of Mandan land, from the author’s visit to Fort Berthold Indian reservation
and New Town, North Dakota.

Description of bear ceremony and its meaning, from
NAI,
Vol. V.

Quote by Curtis on Upshaw “educated,” from newspaper clipping of 1905, in Gidley,
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field.

Descriptions of getting the turtles, from Curtis’s field notes in “As It Was,” on
file at UW Library, Special Collections.

Further descriptions of turtles, from
NAI,
Vol. V.

Curtis letter to Meany from North Dakota on turtles, July 31, 1908, Meany papers.

Slight from Cullen, Curtis letter to Hodge, January 14, 1908, Hodge papers, Southwest
Museum.

Rave from Peabody, Professor Putnam letter to Curtis, January 22, 1908, from Morgan
Library archives.

Review of Reviews
, February 1909.

Dr. ten Kate letter, undated, from Curtis files at Southwest Museum.

Washington Post
headline and rave, February 25, 1909.

Upshaw conversation with Curtis on nobody left, from Curtis, “Vanishing Indian Types,”
Scribner’s,
June 1906.

Upshaw letter to Dalby on “justice,” March 29, 1908, from Senate hearings, 1908.

Washington Post,
on Curtis’s background, February 23, 1909, and on diplomats and the actual visit,
February 26, 1909.

Death of Upshaw, from
NAI,
Vol. VIII.

Details of death of Upshaw in jail, from
Billings Gazette,
October 20, 1909, and from Yellowstone County death certificate, both courtesy of
the Yellowstone Genealogy Forum.

11. ON THE RIVER OF THE WEST

Descriptions of the Columbia River, from Curtis’s unpublished memoir, “As It Was.”

Further descriptions of the Columbia, from the author’s visit along the length of
the river and the path that Curtis took (though a number of dams have changed the
river).

Columbia River’s power, from
A River Lost,
by Blaine Harden, Norton, 1996, and
River of the West,
by Robert Clark, HarperCollinsWest, 1995.

Curtis on Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition, from letter to Meany, June 1, 1909, Meany
papers.

Hal Curtis’s “I never came home” reminiscence, for his sister Florence’s manuscript,
found in random files in Curtis collection at UW Library, Special Collections.

Rainier Club information and history, from
The Rainier Club,
by Walt Crowley, 1988, published for club members, and from the author’s interview
with club officials, in particular Russell Johanson, historian and archivist at the
club. The author is an honorary member of the club.

Curtis’s writing about the Cheyenne, and picture selection, from
NAI,
Vol. VI.

Retouching the alarm clock: the caption is from
NAI,
Vol. VI. Photo showing the clock is in Library and Congress collection of Curtis
photos; photo without the clock is a finished plate as it appeared in
NAI,
Vol. VI.

Writings on the Nez Perce, from
NAI,
Vol. VIII.

The rapids of the Columbia, Noggie crying, and other incidents, from Curtis writings
on file at UW Library, Special Collections.

Descriptions of the Wishham, from
NAI,
Vol. VIII, and from Curtis’s field notes.

Graveyard of the Pacific, description of the mouth of the Columbia, from the author’s
trip and boat ride over the Columbia River Bar.

12. NEW ART FORMS

Andrew Carnegie, from Curtis letter to Meany, November 19, 1911, Meany papers.

Belle Greene letter to Curtis, November 15, 1911, from Morgan Library archives.

Belle Greene’s affair, from Strouse,
Morgan: American Financier.

Morgan schedule, from Strouse,
Morgan: American Financier.

Quotes about Greene, and by her, from Ardizzone,
An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene’s Journey from Prejudice to Privilege.

Osborn’s background, his writings cited in “Rocky Road: Henry Fairfield Osborn,”
www.strangesience.net/osborn.htm
.

Exchange of letters between Osborn and Roosevelt, December 21, 1908, from
Letters of Theodore Roosevelt,
Vol. VI.

Curtis praised in long profile in
New York Times,
April 16, 1911.

Curtis reading script for his show, from a typescript of the musical in Gidley, in
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field.

New York Evening World,
November 16, 1911.

Roosevelt praise on musicale, letters, T.R. to Curtis, November 21, 1911, Roosevelt
letters at Library of Congress.

Curtis letter to Meany, November 19, 1911, Meany papers.

Curtis, “broke,” letter to Hodge, November 19, 1911, Hodge papers, Southwest Museum.

Curtis letter to Hodge, “address me at Rainier Club,” August 15, 1910, Hodge papers,
Southwest Museum.

Curtis letter to Hodge, “Cheer up,” January 11, 1912, Hodge papers, Southwest Museum.

Possible bankruptcy, letter to Dr. Kelsey (no first name given), January 11, 1912,
Hodge papers, Southwest Museum.

Experts question “vanishing,” and Curtis response, in Gidley,
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated.

Curtis’s “gush” explanation to Morgan board, from a long summary of work to date at
end of 1912, Morgan library archives.

Curtis on treatment of Indians in profile, from
Hampton Magazine,
May 1912, reprinted in Gidley,
Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field.