Tintin in America - Relationship To Real Life

Relationship To Real Life

Tintin in America depicts the real-life problems of organized crime in Chicago, America during the Great Depression, and the brief depiction of Al Capone is the only notable appearance of a real person in a Tintin album. Hergé names a specific Native American tribe, the Blackfeet, but here his penchant for fine detail noted in his portrayal of 1930s Arabia, India, and China is not so evident: The Blackfoot reservation is actually in northern Montana near the Canadian border, the giant Saguaro cactus is actually found in the Sonora desert of southern Arizona, and the railroad locomotives (portrayed with the dangling couplers and massive double bumpers) are actually those of period European equipment.

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