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William Henry Jackson's "The pioneer photographer" / compiled, edited, and annotated by Bob Blair ; with original text from the 1929 edition by William Henry Jackson in collaboration with Howard R. Driggs ; foreword by Lee Whittlesey.

Title: William Henry Jackson's "The pioneer photographer" / compiled, edited, and annotated by Bob Blair ; with original text from the 1929 edition by William Henry Jackson in collaboration with Howard R. Driggs ; foreword by Lee Whittlesey.
Author: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Publication: Santa Fe : Museum of New Mexico Press, c2005.

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Description

xii, 210 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 29 cm.

Summary

Blair has painstakingly reconstructed the art, views and vision of a man who devoted his life to preserving the legacy of the American West-and it is a fascinating story.-Dean Knudsen, Historian, Scotts Bluff National Monument, National Park Service Of the many published accounts to come out of William Henry Jackson's long career, The Pioneer Photographer, first published in 1929, is widely accepted as Jackson's most trusted autobiography of his early pioneering days and his first eight years (1870-1878) as the official photographer for the U.S. Geological Survey. This reconstruction of Jackson's classic work, long out of print, presents one hundred sixty photographs and early drawings, paintings and lithographs by America's best-known landscape photographer, drawing on Jackson's diaries, other published accounts, and importantly his annotations of The Pioneer Photographer to create a complete and multidimensional view of the unfolding nineteenth-century American West. Editor Bob Blair has significantly expanded Jackson's original autobiography, reprinted here in full with the author's annotations, with seventy additional photographs, drawings, and paintings, and extensive excerpts from Jackson's writings, much of the new material drawn from archives and historical collections and never before published. - Publisher.

Uniform Title

Pioneer photographer

Alternative Title

Pioneer photographer

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies
History
Pictorial works
History.
Pictorial works.

Note

Originally published: Yonkers-on-Hudson, N.Y. : World Book Co., 1929. Includes additional sketches, photos, and paintings by Jackson and commentary.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-203) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Early experiences -- A plunge into unknown fields -- Bullwhacking across the plains -- Trailing California mustangs -- Photographing along the Union Pacific route -- Across Wyoming with Hayden -- First photographing of the Yellowstone -- Photographing the Grand Teton -- Among the Colorado Rockies -- Around the headwaters of the Arkansas -- Photographing the mountain of the Holy Cross -- Photographic adventures among the Ute Indians -- Among the peaks of the San Juan -- Adventures with a larger camera -- Discovery of the cliff ruins -- In the land of the cliff dwellers -- Further adventures with the Indians -- In the land of the Pueblos -- Along old Wyoming trails again.

ISBN

0890134359 (clothbound : alk. paper)
0890134367 (paperbound : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004016823

OCLC

56069029
SCSB-10725040

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Harvard Library