Wellington Stubbs’ Hunting Adventure in the West, 1873
For this week’s Native American History Month Entry, we present “Wellington Stubbs’ Hunting Adventure in the West”, which in 1873 was serialized across the August 2nd, 9th, and 16th issues of Frank Leslie’s Boys’ and Girls’ Weekly.
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I’d be surprised if anything involving the portrayal of Chickasaws in this comic story were accurate — most illustrators depicting Native Americans (and moreso, cartoonists), never personally encountered actual natives. Their entire knowledge of the subject, derived from popular media, written and drawn by others, who likely also had no real experience.
While Wellington Stubbs does not contain the sort of egregious, over-the-top racist imagery found in some other portrayals of Native Americans (see some of the earlier postings in this series), its story follows the overworn Pocahontas path (which it directly refers to) of a native woman falling for a white explorer/hunter/leader.
To view prior Native American History postings, click here. More again next week.
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— Doug
