Publication

2002-10-01 - Yale University Press

Language

English

Word Count

104,000 words, Guess

Page Count

416 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • LCCTR23.6 .S25 2002
  • LCCTR23.6.S25 2002

Description

"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.

First Sentence

This is a story about photography and the American West, a new medium and a new place that came of age together in the nineteenth century.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Print the Legend: Photography and the American WestHardcoverYale University Press2002-10-01

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