Description |
xiii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Series |
Yale Western Americana series |
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Yale Western Americana series.
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Contents |
Introduction: Picture Stories -- 1. "The Spirit Is Wanting" -- 2. "Of Instruction for Their Faithfulness" -- 3. "A Panorama of the Country" -- 4. "The Attempt Has Not Met with Distinguished Success" -- 5. "Westward the Course of Empire" -- 6. "Momentoes of the Race" -- 7. "Print the Legend" -- Epilogue: Pictures as History and Memory |
Summary |
"Resurrecting scores of little-known images of the nineteenth-century American West, Print the Legend offers engaging tales of ambitious photographic adventurers, missing photographs, and misinterpreted images. Chronicling both the history of a place and the history of a medium, this book tells the story of how Americans first came to understand western photographs and, consequently, to envision their expanding nation."--BOOK JACKET |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-390]) and index |
Subject |
Photography -- West (U.S.) -- History.
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LC no. |
2002007038 |
ISBN |
0300103158 paperback |
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0300095228 hardcover alkaline paper |
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