" Indian Country: Travels in the American Southwest, 1840-1935 by Matrin Padget, is a thought-provoking examination of how explorers, writers and artists helped shape the public's perception of the Southwest."—Arizona Daily Star
". . a very thought-provoking examination of how explorers such as John Wesley Powell, writers Charles F. Lummis and Helen Hunt Jackson, and artists such as Elbridge Ayer Burbank played a significant role in shaping the public's perception of this distinctive region of the country, and how their often distorted, Eurocentric views changed, even molded, the lives of Indians."—Southwest Books of the Year
"What we have from Martin Padget is a lively, fresh look at important sources useful in distilling how late-nineteenth-and early-twentieth century commentors interpreted the Southwest to the American public."—Montana Magazine
"Padget treats his subjects critically yet sympathetically; Indian Country serves as a good introduction to a growing literature on representations of the Southwest by European and Anglo-American outsiders."—Journal of American History
" (Indian Country) illustrates how a broad range of Euro-American explorers, novelists, and painters helped to forge an identity of the Southwest as a 'land of enchantment' a place of unparalleled natural beauty. . . ."—American Historical Review
"While many scholars have tackled the task of deconstructing how imagery of the West was created, few have done so as successfully as Martin Padget in Indian Country."—Southwestern Historical Quarterly
"Martin Padget has produced a fascinating. . text, thoroughly researched."—Western American Literature
" Indian Country is primarily a work of scholarship, disciplined and sometimes dense. Padget invites us to re-read- or at least, to reconsider- a whole library of Euro-American texts."—Los Angeles Times
"Pagdet provides insights into the prevailing attitudes held by the general society at the time of the writing. There is also a considerable amount of information about lesser-known tribes and the results of the Euro-American ethnocentric impingement on their ultimate demise or survival. . . This book should be required reading in any course about Native Americans. Highly Recommended."—CHOICE Magazine
" Indian Country is well written with a flowing literary style. It is light on jargon and contains insightful analysis."—Journal of American Ethnic History
" (Indian Country) illustrates how a broad range of Euro-American explorers, novelists, and painters helped to forge an identity of the Southwest as a 'land of enchantment,' a place of unparalleled natural beauty. . . ."—American Historical Review
"Padget...intelligently shows us how people like Helen Hunt Jackson and John Wesley Powell conditioned popular conceptions of Native Americans. His book is so convincing that Padget's next project should turn the tables in a collection of Indian writings about Anglos that shows how those commentaries affected Indian society."—True West Magazine