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"Letters of Sully, printed for the first time, provide a vivid picture of California in the gold rush, of Minnesota frontier in the 1850s, Civil War, Sioux upri

This lavishly illustrated art history situates the work of pioneering mid-twentieth-century Native American artists within the broader canon of American moderni

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