BEYOND WILDERNESS: APERTURE 120 and TO MAKE IT HOME: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AMERICAN WEST and A DISTANCED LAND: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF JOHN PFAHL

1991 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-194
Author(s):  
Timothy M. Davis
Keyword(s):  
American West

The Blue Flower and the Account Book

2016 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Anne F. Hyde
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
North American ◽  
American West ◽  
Fur Trade ◽  
Blue Flower ◽  
Racial Category ◽  
North American West ◽  
Mixed Blood ◽  
Anglo American

This essay, a revised version of the August 2015 talk, examines the story of two mixed-blood women, indigenous and Anglo American, who lived in the fur trade North American West. The essay examines a racial category, mixed blood or “half-breed” and considers the challenges for people who lived in and used that category in the nineteenth century. The essay illuminates the challenges of using different kinds of personal records to understand how these nineteenth-century women might have thought about identity, a word they never would have used.

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