Print the Legend Photography and the American West

Name: Print the Legend Photography and the American West
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ISBN: 9780300103151

ISBN-10: 0300103158

ISBN-13: 9780300103151

Edition: 2004

Authors: Martha A. Sandweiss

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Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 4/10/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 420
Size: 0.68" wide x 0.96" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 2.728
Language: English

Martha A. Sandweiss is professor of history and American studies at Amherst College.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Picture Stories: Photography and the Nineteenth-Century West



"The Spirit Is Wanting" Photography and the Mexican-American War



"Of Instruction for Their Faithfulness" Panoramas, Indian Galleries, and Western Daguerreotypes



"A Panorama of the Country" Government Enterprise, Daguerreotypes, and the Exploration of the Far West



"The 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 Western Past


Notes


Index