The title "I Like America: Fictions of the WildWest" references an enthusiasm in German-speaking Europe for the American Wild West that dates back to the early nineteenth century.It was then that increasing numbers of Germans began to emigrate to the United States,hopeful that there they might find a place within the untouched countryside,whose resplendent forests and lakes still sheltered the noble Indian.One of the earliest descriptions we have of German-speaking migrants crossing the plains was noted by Fritz Hugh Ludlow in 1863 during a trip he and Albert Bierstadt took to California.

MAX HOLLEIN

Foreword

INDIAN GALLERIES

CHARLES BIRD KING,A.ZENO SHINDLER,

AND GEORGE CATLIN

PAMELA KORT

"The Unmastered Past

of the Indians' Murder"

PETER BOLZ

Indian Images for the King

George Catlin in Europe

NATURAL HISTORIES

EMANUEL LEUTZE,KARL BODMER,

AND BALBUIN MOLLHAUSEN

THE IMAGE OF AMERICA

IN THE GERMAN

POPULAR PRESS

H.GLENN PENNY

Illustrating America

Images of the North American Wild West

in German Periodicals,1825-189o

HISTORICAL NARRATIVES

OR SUBLIME VIEWS?

CARL WIMAR,ALBERT BIERSTABT,

AND THOMAS MORAN

LIVE!

ETHNOGRAPHIC EXHIBITIONS,

SCIENTISTS AND THE MASSES

FRANZ BOAS,ABY WARBURG,

AND CARL HAGENBECK

ERIC AMES

Seeing the Imaginary

On the Popular Reception of

Wild West Shows in Germany,

1885-1910

THE WILD WEST

COMES TO GERMANY

AND AUSTRIA

DOC CARVER,ANNIE OAKLEY,

AND BUFFALO BILL

KARL MAY

KARL MARKUS KREIS

German Wild West

Karl May's Invention of the Definitive Indian

"THE WINNING OF THE WEST"

ALEXANDER POPE,ASHLEY D.M.COOPER,

CHARLES BCHREYVOGEL,CHARLES

RUSSELL,AND FREBERIC REMINGTON

COWBOYS AND INDIANS

IN THE CIRCUS AND CINEMA

BARBARA McCLOSKEY

From the 'Frontier' to the Wild West

German Artists,American Indians,

and the Spectacle of Race and Nation in the

Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

FANTASIES OF THE

WILD WEST IN EARLY

TWENTIETH-CENTURY

GERMAN ART

MAX SLEVOGT,AUGUST MACKE,

MARSDEN HARTLEY,GEORGE GROSZ,

EMIL NOLBE,RUDOLF SCHLICHTER,

AND OTTO BIX

A LESSON FROM BEUYS

EUGEN BLUME

Joseph Beuys' "I like America and

America likes Me"

List of Exhibited Works

Index of Names

Photo Credits

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