Joseph Knowles was a forty-five-year-old part-time painter, ex-Navy man, friend of the Sioux, and onetime hunting guide who stepped-nearly naked-in...
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Feb 24, 2010
Steve
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I expected this to be a focused biography of Joseph Knowles, which would have been fascinating enough to make the book a good read. But it's actually a more wide-ranging project, considering Knowles in the contexts of shifting images and anxieties of the frontier, the rise of motion picture and newspaper moguls, and many of the forces that made the twentieth century all that it was. All of that added up to a really engaging, provocative look at the natural and cultural forces shaping not only Kn
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Aug 10, 2008
David
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This is the biography of a "Nature Man" born and raised in rural Maine at the end of the 19th cent. In 1913, with the frontier gone and city populations beginning to empty America's farms, Joe Knowles spent two months alone, speechless and bare-skinned in the wilds of Maine. The stunt was sponsored by a Boston newspaper. He sent in charcoal-on-birchbark accounts of his time in the woods to be published in the papers. He survived but later others claimed he had help and lived in a ca
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