Edward S. Curtis: Bibliography & Resources

The North American Indian

Edward S. Curtis; edited by Frederick Webb Hodge; foreword by Theodore Roosevelt

Curtis's monumental twenty-volume work, issued between 1907 and 1930 with twenty accompanying portfolios of photogravures, documenting peoples of more than eighty Native nations through photographs, ethnographic text, vocabularies, and song transcriptions.

The North American Indians: A Selection of Photographs by Edward S. Curtis

Edward S. Curtis; introduction by Joseph Epes Brown

An early reprint selection that helped revive popular interest in Curtis's photographs during the 1970s rediscovery of his work.

The Master Builders: A History of the Astonishing Life of Edward Sheriff Curtis (Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher)

Timothy Egan

A widely read biography, 'Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis,' which won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction.

ISBN: 978-0618969029

Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field

Mick Gidley

A scholarly account of how the project was organized, financed, and produced, drawing on archival records.