Review of \u3ci\u3eLanterns on the Prairie: The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock\u3c/i\u3e edited by Steven L. Grafe, with contributions by William E. Farr, Sherry L. Smith, and Darrell Robes Kipp

Walter McClintock (1870-1949) is principally known for two books, The Old North Trail; or Life, Legends and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians (1910) and Old Indian Trails (1923). Both are illustrated with McClintock\u27s photographs, The Old North Trail generously so. They convey an idealized vision of the traditional Blackfeet culture that captivated McClintock when, as a Yale graduate aspiring to a career in forestry, he visited the Blackfeet reservation in Montana in 1896. On subsequent visits through 1912 his collection grew to over 2,000 photographs, and he established himself as an authority on the tribe, delivering lectures in America and Europe illustrated with hand-colored lantern slides