The newspaper Indian : Native American identity in the press, 1820-90 /
John M. Coward.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.
- viii, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- The History of communication .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Discovery, destiny, and savagery : imagining Indians in America -- Romance and rumor : the Indian in the antebellum press -- Explaining Indian removal -- The Rocky Mountain news and the scandal of Sand Creek -- The war in words : reporting the Fetterman fight -- The making of an Indian villain : Sitting Bull in war and peace -- Indian reformers and the idealized indian.