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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.--jacket. Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Picture Stories : Photography And The Nineteenth-century West -- Spirit Is Wanting : Photography And The Mexican-american War -- Of Instruction For Their Faithfulness : Panoramas, Indian Galleries, And Western Daguerreotypes -- Panorama Of The Country : Government Enterprise, Daguerreotypes, And The Exploration Of The Far West -- Attempt Has Not Met With Distinguished Success : Early Wet-plate Photography And Western Exploration -- Westward The Course Of Empire : Photography And The Invention Of An American Future -- Momentoes Of The Race : Photography And The American Indian -- Print The Legend : Western Photography And The Illustrated Book -- Epilogue : Pictures As History And Memory : Photography And The Story Of The West

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Author

Sandweiss, Martha A.

Publisher

New Haven: Yale University Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300103151

Category

history

Subjects

Photography, Fiction, Western

Rating

4.38 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14