{"product_id":"the-empty-saddle","title":"1913 The Empty Saddle","description":"\u003cp\u003eA cluster of riderless saddled horses appears in this photogravure by Rodman Wanamaker excerpted from Joseph K. Dixon's 1913 book \"The Vanishing Race.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Vanishing Race\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoseph Kossuth Dixon, educational director of the Wanamaker department store in Philadelphia, wrote and illustrated \u003cem\u003eThe Vanishing Race\u003c\/em\u003e (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page \u0026amp; Company, 1913), a book of eighty photogravures of Indian chiefs and Indian life. Its photographs drew on the expeditions that Rodman Wanamaker sponsored to the Crow Reservation in Montana in 1908 and 1909, where Dixon gathered chiefs from many tribes for what the book calls the last great Indian council, held in the valley of the Little Horn in September 1909. Dixon directed much of what he photographed, and the book's title reflects the belief, widespread at the time, that Native Americans were a people destined to disappear, a theme that the book's scenes of departure and farewell appear designed to dramatize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New World Cartographic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44355301572669,"sku":"92478","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0390\/9705\/files\/92478a.jpg?v=1793896106","url":"https:\/\/nwcartographic.com\/products\/the-empty-saddle","provider":"New World Cartographic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}