The Making of Sacagawea: A Euro-American Legend

By Donna J. Kessler

Sacagawea is one of the most renowned figures of the American West. This exploration of her story examines representative texts, and charts the evolution of the legend over two centuries,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081730777X
• ISBN13: 9780817307776
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: University of Alabama Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

surely a worth

I hate some books which offer good ideas but never will they be well-organized; however, this book is not the case at all. Kessler has her own brilliant ideas and has organized them excellently. She divides the different time periods with more than enough supporting materials and yet she never forgets her key-position. The perspectives are convincing, the bibliography is reachable and useful (I have found a few more applicable materials through the very bibliography); the only tiny problem is the pictures offered. There are many monuments or coins or even statues on Sacajawea. Amazingly, Kessler offers only one in page 182. However, this problem can be covered due to Kessler's encyclopedic and also provocative writing. (Sandie Y.R.Lo, Taiwan)

What a find!

I just finished reading this book as part of some research I am doing on Sacagawea. I couldn't put it down from the moment I read the first page. Ms Kessler does a wonderful job of placing her literature review in a coherent theoretical framework. I have read most of the books and articles written about Sacagawea cited in Ms Kessler's work; I deeply appreciated her analysis of how each of these authors fits into the larger picture.Best of all, Ms Kessler provides a thoughtful discussion of Native American contributions to the literature. Most of the Native American authors she cites do not specifically address the question of Sacagawea. Rather, they provide an essential (but usually overlooked) point of view of the Native American experience over time.Thank you, Ms Kessler!!