Indian Captive Enlevement de al Femme D'Un Colon (Abduction of a female Colonist) (p. 684) Voyage Pittoresque et Anecdotique dans le Nord et le Sud des Etats-Unis D'Amerique. Paris, 1866. This type of art gradually came to coexist with more polished, academy trained artists' depictions-Felix Darley's work is perhaps the most famous in this regard. Darley was a great student of the old Indian captivity narratives in America, and he used the Indian as a way to create a frontier myth, a legend and a heroic depiction of the perils of the frontier pioneers, all without ever traveling West. He did this to curry favor with American publishers looking to illustrate the works of the first American novelists-often writers who used native Americans for subject matter. It is no accident that writers such as Irving and Cooper preferred their editions to be illustrated by Darley-and his work was eventually sought by non-fiction writers such as Parkman, or even by the newspapers, such as Harper's Weekly.