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9780300095227

Print the Legend : Photography and the American West

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300095227

  • ISBN10:

    0300095228

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2002-10-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
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Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction Picture Stories 1(14)
Photography and the Nineteenth-Century West
``The Spirit Is Wanting''
15(32)
Photography and the Mexican-American War
``Of Instruction for Their Faithfulness''
47(40)
Panoramas, Indian Galleries, and Western Daguerreotypes
``A Panorama of the Country''
87(34)
Government Enterprise, Daguerreotypes, and the Exploration of the Far West
``The Attempt Has Not Met with Distinguished Success''
121(34)
Early Wet-Plate Photography and Western Exploration
``Westward the Course of Empire''
155(52)
Photography and the Invention of an American Future
``Momentoes of the Race''
207(68)
Photography and the American Indian
``Print the Legend''
275(50)
Western Photography and the Illustrated Book
Epilogue Pictures as History and Memory
325(20)
Photography and the Story of the Western Past
Notes 345(46)
Index 391

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