This engaging, richly illustrated, and meticulously researched book chronicles the intersecting lives of Maine Wabanaki Indians and wealthy summer rusticators on Mount Desert Island during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At a time when some of America's most noted wealthy citizens built sumptuous summer cottages in this vacationer's Eden, the Wabanakis interacted with them by selling Native crafts, practicing traditional medicine, offering guide services and producing Indian shows.
