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Sept. 2003. 224p. illus. index. Hudson Hills, $50 (0-86559-199-7). 704.9.
Chicago was the gateway to the Old West, the source of the city's wealth and the inspiration, for many of its artists and art collectors, who found in Native American culture a profound alternative to their own regimented lives. Barter, a curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, eloquently relates the fascinating, heretofore little studied story of the symbiosis between Chicago's art world and the West in sync with a treasury of works found in the museum's lavish permanent collection, many not seen by the public in ...