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Author Sandweiss, Martha A.

Title Print the legend : photography and the American West / Martha A. Sandweiss
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
©2002

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 MELB  770.978 San/Ptl  AVAILABLE
Description xiii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Yale Western Americana series
Yale Western Americana series.
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.
LC no. 2002007038
ISBN 0300103158 paperback
0300095228 hardcover alkaline paper
Other Titles Photography and the American West