The Newspaper Warrior

"Winnemucca speaks for herself, which makes this collection a truly valuable addition to the scholarship and literature about the American Indian experience in the latter decades of the nineteenth century."—Janet M. Cramer, Civil War Book Review
"An invaluable scholarly resource, The Newspaper Warrior shows us the extent of knowledge and textual conversation about Winnemucca across the nation, and especially in the western states, which is often omitted from scholarly notice."—Nicole Tonkovich, American Periodicals
“This is literary detective work at its best. Carpenter and Sorisio have described a rich, previously unknown archive that fills in the historical contexts in which we can read Sarah Winnemucca—her tribal and activist networks, the fates of her family members, and the virulent criticism to which she was constantly subjected. This book also establishes Winnemucca as a significant writer beyond her memoir, Life among the Piutes. Carpenter and Sorisio have dramatically advanced our understanding of this intriguing and complicated Native author.”—Siobhan Senier, editor of Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Writing from Indigenous New England

“Sarah Winnemucca’s unexplored newspaper articles, and those published regarding her, represent a vital archive of indigenous literary history that will be critical to any scholar working on Winnemucca and nineteenth-century American Indian authors.”—Penelope M. Kelsey, author of Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Indigenous Worldviews