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008		230911s2002 ctua b 001 0 eng
020		\|a9780300103151\|q(pbk.)
040		\|aKCIS\|beng\|cKCIS\|eAACR2
041	0	\|aeng
082	0	\|a770/.978\|221
100	1	\|aSandweiss, Martha A
245	10	\|aPrint the legend :\|bphotography and the American West /\|cMartha A. Sandweiss
260		\|aNew Haven :\|bYale University Press,\|c©2002
300		\|axiii, 402 pages :\|billustrations ;\|c25 cm
490	1	\|aYale Western Americana series
504		\|aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 345-390) and index
505	0	\|aAcknowledgments -- 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 Western past
520	1	\|a"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
650	0	\|aPhotography\|zWest (U.S.)\|xHistory
655	7	\|aHistory.\|2fast\|0(OCoLC)fst01411628
830	0	\|aYale Western Americana series (Unnumbered)
983		\|aKCIS
983		\|aJ1120510006
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This prize-winning book tells the intertwined stories of photography and the American West-a new medium and a new place that came of age together in the nineteenth century. ＂Excellent . . . rewarding . . . a provocative look at the limits of photography as recorder of history-and its role in perpetuating myth.＂-Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News ＂A sophisticated and engaging exploration of photography and the West . . . A really handsome work.＂-James McWilliams, Austin Chronicle ＂A wonderful book.＂-Vernon Peter, Sunday Oregonian ＂A deliciously intelligent new book . . . so engrossing you can’t stop reading.＂-Michael More, Albuquerque Journal ＂Print the Legend belongs on that short shelf of essential books about the American West.＂-James P. Ronda, University of Tulsa
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