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Wildlife in American Art Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art

By Adam Duncan Harris $55.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4015-5 $35.00 Paper · 978-0-8061-4099-5 320 pages · 9 × 12 · 135 color illus.

The National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming, has assembled the most comprehensive collection of paintings and sculptures portraying North American wildlife in the world. Wildlife in American Art presents for the first time a generous sampling of the museum’s holdings, charts the history of this enduring theme in American art, and explores the evolving relationship between Americans and the natural resources of this continent. More than 125 full-color illustrations highlight the entire range of the museum’s collection, from the western wilds of George Catlin to the desert drama of Georgia O’Keeffe.

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Charles M. Russell A Catalogue Raisonné Edited by B. Byron Price $125.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3836-7 368 pages · 10 × 12 · 170 color and 65 b&w illus.

Charles M. Russell is our most beloved artist of the American West. His paintings, sketches, sculpture, illustrated letters, and stories are an unequalled legacy. Lavishly illustrated with more than 200 color and black-and-white reproductions of Russell’s greatest works, this beautiful volume features essays by Russell experts and scholars who address important aspects of the artist’s life and career.

Bonus feature: Inside the book is a unique key code that allows purchasers to access a private online catalogue (www.russellraisonne.com) of more than 4,000 works Russell created and signed during his lifetime. Original owners of the book will have unlimited access to the site once a user name and password have been created.

The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture Edited by Joan Carpenter Troccoli $65.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4081-0 $39.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-4097-1 304 pages · 10 × 12 · 133 color and 81 b&w illus.

In the decades bracketing the turn of the twentieth century, Charles M. Russell depicted the American West in a fresh, personal, and deeply moving way. To this day, Russell is celebrated for his paintings and sculptures of cowboys at work and play, his sensitive portrayals of American Indians, and his superlative representations of landscape and wildlife. This handsome book showcases many of the artist’s bestknown works and chronicles the sources and evolution of his style.

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The West of the Imagination, Second Edition

By William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann

The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein

By Peter H. Hassrick and Elizabeth J. Cunningham

$65.00 cloth · 978-0-8061-3533-5

$34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3948-7

640 pages · 8½ × 11 · 339 color and 116 b&w Illus.

416 pages · 10 × 12 · 133 color and 24 b&w Illus.

For many people, “western art” immediately conjures images by Frederic Remington or Georgia O’Keeffe—but there’s so much more. This new edition by the Pulitzer Prizewinning historian and his son is significantly expanded and updated and shows that the West is a vibrant mirror of American cultural diversity. Through 450 illustrations—more than half of them in color—the authors trace the visual evolution of the myth of the American West, from unknown frontier to repository of American values, covering popular and high arts alike.

One of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists, Ernest L. Blumenschein (1874– 1960) was perhaps the most complex and accomplished of all the painters associated with that pioneering organization.

This volume is the definitive work on Blumenschein’s life and art, reproducing masterworks from a new exhibit along with additional works and historical photographs to form the most comprehensive assemblage of his paintings ever published.

In Contemporary Rhythm describes not only his place in the Taos colony and western art but also his far-reaching influence on mainstream American art and national aesthetic developments.

An unrivaled survey, The West of the Imagination is an immensely informative and pleasurable volume for anyone with an interest in the region’s creative legacy.

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In Contemporary Rhythm

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Charles Deas and 1840s America

Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet

By Carol Clark

An Impressionist at Glacier National Park

By William E. Farr

$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4030-8 248 pages · 9 × 10 ½ · 70 color and 84 b&w Illus.

Charles Deas (1818–67), an enigmatic figure on the edge of mainstream artistic circles in mid-nineteenth-century New York, went west to explore new opportunities and subjects in 1840. From his adopted hometown of St. Louis, Deas sent his iconic paintings of fur trappers and Indians back east for exhibition and sale, briefly winning the recognition that had earlier eluded him.

This handsome volume—featuring more than 150 illustrations, 70 in color—is the first book exclusively devoted to Deas. In two major essays, Carol Clark presents Deas’s haunting biography and complex art—works that embodied Americans’ uncertainty about the future of their rapidly expanding nation, especially in the contested spaces of the West.

$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4014-8 256 pages · 9 × 12 · 73 color and 141 b&w illus.

German Impressionist artist Julius Seyler had already made a name for himself in Europe when America beckoned. While in St. Paul, Minnesota, he encountered Louis Hill, head of the Great Northern Railroad, who wanted to encourage travel to Montana’s newly created Glacier National Park. To that end, Hill enticed the adventuresome Seyler to visit this majestic landscape and to see the Blackfeet Indians who lived there.

This book marks both an appreciation of Seyler’s unique art and a fascinating glimpse into the promotion of a national park in its early years.

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Sculptor in Buckskin

Follow the Sun

The Autobiography of Alexander Phimister Proctor Second Edition Edited by Katharine C. Ebner

Robert Lougheed

By Don Hedgpeth

$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4007-0

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244 pages · 9 × 12 · 30 color and 100 b&w illus.

Coming january 2010

This new edition of Proctor’s autobiography provides a thorough introduction to a distinctively American artist whose monumental sculptures and statues adorn parks, public buildings, and museums, as well as private homes and businesses across the country. The text takes the reader on a far-flung journey from his birth in Ontario and childhood in Denver to his travels as a young man throughout the United States and eventually to Paris. A new selection of more than 125 illustrations—many in full color—includes historical photographs and reproductions of Proctor’s sketches, paintings, and sculptures, tracing the development of his magnificent artistry.

A quiet, confident man dedicated to painting, Robert Lougheed was born in 1910 and grew up on a farm in Ontario, Canada, the reins of a working horse in one hand and a drawing pencil in the other.

This is the first book to showcase the full breadth of Lougheed’s artistic legacy. More than 400 full-color reproductions trace his trajectory from early Canadian studies of working horses to commercial work to western scenes and timeless plein-air oils of European subjects, with much in between.

After earning a place among renowned illustrators, Lougheed joined the Cowboy Artists of America and helped found the National Academy of Western Art. Both honored him with multiple awards.

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$65.00s cloth · 978-0-578-03970-1 360 pages · 11 ¼ × 11 ½ · 334 color and 85 b&w illus.

Sentimental Journey

Earthlings

The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller

By Lisa Strong

The Paintings of Tom Palmore

By Susan Hallsten McGarry

$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-88360-105-1

$45.00s Cloth · 978-1-934397-05-3

238 pages · 10 ½ × 11 · 100 color illus.

120 pages · 9 ½ × 10 ¾ · 160 color illus.

Distributed for Amon Carter Museum

Distributed for Tom Quaid Publishing

Over the past two decades, much valuable scholarship has emerged on how western American art has reflected American nationalist or expansionist ideologies. In Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller, Lisa Strong takes a new approach by examining how Miller tailored his western scenes to suit the specific needs and interests of local American audiences.

Born in Ada and living in Oklahoma, Palmore emerged from the 1970s Photorealist movement as a maverick. His career includes more than a decade on the East Coast, where he refined his skills at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and exhibited in New York’s prominent contemporary galleries. Palmore used his technical virtuosity to explore his passion for the animal kingdom. Then as today, his monumental paintings received critical acclaim, and his incongruous juxtapositions of realistic primates in silk-and-velvet interiors earned him the nickname Gorilla Man. In all cases, Palmore’s paintings loom large not only in scale but also in raised consciousness of the “earthlings with whom we share this planet,” as he says.

“An outstanding achievement. Strong’s book is a major contribution to studies not just of western art but American art in general.”

—Alex Nemerov, Professor of the History of Art, Yale University “Sentimental Journey will set a new scholarly standard for monographs on western art.”

—William H. Truettner, Senior Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

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The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma

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A Western Legacy

Selected Works

By Eric McCauley Lee and Rima Canaan

The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Introduction by David Dary

$59.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3673-8

$59.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3728-5

$39.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3680-6

$29.95 paper · 978-0-8061-3731-5

292 pages · 9 × 11 · 280 color illus.

256 pages · 10 × 12 ½ · 274 color and 50 b&w illus.

This beautifully illustrated catalogue highlights 101 works of art from the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma. Combining full-color reproductions with explanatory text, the catalogue presents significant examples of Asian, European, American, American Indian, and contemporary art from the museum’s permanent collection. For visitors to the museum and art aficionados, these pages offer a tour of the museum’s exceptional paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and photographs. Arranged in chronological and thematic sequence, the catalogue entries focus on single works, each by a different artist.

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum commands a rare view of the American West. In half a century it has grown from a Hall of Fame honoring the American cowboy to a world-class institution housing extraordinary collections of art, artifacts, and archival materials. A Western Legacy celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of this premier museum, offering both an institutional history and a captivating collection of photographs representing its extensive holdings.

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A Western Legacy presents for the first time in one volume numerous color images of the museum’s signature artworks and artifacts, selected for their rarity, superior quality, or historic importance, each accompanied by an interpretive essay.

Treasures of Gilcrease

Charles Banks Wilson

Selections from the Permanent Collection

By Sarah Erwin, Anne Morand, Kevin Smith, and Daniel C. Swan

Contributions by Randy Ramer, Carole Klein, Anne Morand, and Carol Haralson

$39.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-9955-9

200 pages · 9 × 10 · 97 color and 97 b&w illus.

$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-9956-6

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198 pages · 9 ½ × 13 ½ · 179 color and 16 b&w illus.

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In 1938, Thomas Gilcrease, a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, opened the first museum devoted to the art of the American West. A true visionary, Gilcrease was ahead of his time in understanding the importance of America’s own heritage. His passion for art and history, his Native American ancestry, and his oil revenues coincided in a rare alignment. His legacy is an astounding collection of paintings, sculptures, artifacts, rare books, and documents. This lavishly produced book, featuring nearly two hundred color reproductions, tells the story of Gilcrease and of the renowned museum that bears his name.

$19.95s Paper · 978-0-9725657-3-8

Charles Banks Wilson is one of Oklahoma’s most beloved and accomplished artists.

Known for his portraits and murals honoring great Oklahomans and Oklahoma history, and for his career-spanning series of portraits of Native Americans, his place in the history of American art is assured. This stunning book, featuring nearly two hundred reproductions of his works, celebrates both his life story and his artistic legacy.

The contributors to this book reveal Wilson’s devotion to American heartland life through detailed analysis of his works, many from the Gilcrease Collection, created over nearly seven decades of the artist’s life.

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Art of the Oklahoma State Capitol

Willard Stone

The Senate Collection

By Bob Burke

By Randy Ramer, Carole Klein, Kimberly Roblin, and Regan Hansen,

$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-9725657-6-9

$24.95s Paper · 978-0-9725657-4-5

218 pages · 9 ½ × 10 ½ · 107 color illus.

190 pages · 9 × 10 · 165 color and 56 b&w illus.

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Exploring Oklahoma through paintings and sculpture, Art of the Oklahoma State Capitol examines the history of the state from the Indian territorial period through the twentieth century and beyond. Focusing on the art collected by Senator Charles Ford and sponsored by the Oklahoma State Senate Historical Preservation Fund, it reveals—through the vision of talented artists from around the state—the personalities of those who have shaped Oklahoma’s past and present. Showcasing works by Charles Banks Wilson, Mike Wimmer, Linda Tuma Roberston, and many others, this book highlights some of the more prominent contemporary artists working in Oklahoma.

This lavishly illustrated volume presents the life and work of Cherokee woodcarver Willard Stone. Four authors, including staff of the Gilcrease Museum and one of Stone’s grandsons, provide insight into the artist’s biography, his carving techniques, his sources of inspiration, and his legacy as an Oklahoma artist.

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Referring to himself as a “folklorist in wood,” Stone carved his philosophy of life into his works, creating stories that glowed with universal truths and resonated with his own personality. In addition to his ability to create beautiful forms, it is his gift of storytelling that lends the carvings of Willard Stone their profound mark of distinction.

Thomas Gilcrease

Uprising!

Contributions by Randy Ramer, Carole Klein, Kimberly Roblin, Gary Moore, Anne Morand, April Miller, and Eric Singleton

Woody Crumbo’s Indian Art

By Robert Perry

$24.95s Paper · 978-0-9725657-7-6

256 pages · 9 × 12 · 36 Color and 74 B&W Illus.

192 pages · 9 × 10 · 116 color and 146 b&w illus.

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The story of Thomas Gilcrease (1890–1962) is the story of the world’s first oil boom, of a young state in its formative years, of marriages and fortunes made and lost—but most lastingly it is the story of how the Gilcrease collection came to exist, and how Gilcrease Museum became an unparalleled treasure house now owned by the citizens of Tulsa, Oklahoma. With over 500,000 artifacts, pieces of art, and archival gems, it is a testament to one man’s dedication and vision. In Thomas Gilcrease, the man behind that museum is revealed.

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The life of Woodrow “Woody” Crumbo (1912–1989) parallels the twentiethcentury evolution of American Indian art.

An accomplished Native dancer, flutist, silversmith, and poet, Crumbo is perhaps best known today for his oil paintings and silk screens—revolutionary artworks that were denigrated by some critics at first but that helped move Indian art to museums of fine art, as well as its markets. Now the life story of an Indian artist who often went against the grain is told by an accomplished Indian storyteller.

Uprising! Woody Crumbo’s Indian Art tells a compassionate and inspiring story as it fills a gap in the historical record regarding indigenous artists of the century just closed.

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They Know Who They Are

Art from Fort Marion

Elders of the Chickasaw Nation

By Mike Larsen and Martha Larsen

The Silberman Collection

By Joyce M. Szabo

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-4-9

$49.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3883-1

144 pages · 9 × 12 · 25 color and 40 b&w illus.

$29.95 paper · 978-0-8061-3889-3

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208 pages · 9 × 11 · 130 color illus.

In August 2004, Oklahoma Centennial project artist Mike Larsen approached Chickasaw Nation leaders with an idea to honor living Chickasaw elders—sages of his own tribe. He wanted to learn about their families and hear their stories. Larsen’s vision was to paint a series of portraits of these elders.

During the 1870s, Cheyenne and Kiowa prisoners of war at Fort Marion, Florida, graphically recorded their responses to incarceration in drawings that conveyed both the present reality of imprisonment and nostalgic memories of home. Now a leading authority on American Indian drawings and paintings examines an important collection of these drawings to reveal how art blossomed at Fort Marion.

Accompanied by his wife, Martha Larsen, the two listened and learned what it means to be Chickasaw. Larsen’s carefully rendered sketches progressed from paper to canvas to yield the 24 remarkable paintings reproduced in this volume. Martha Larsen has written a richly detailed narrative, based on each elder’s interview, documenting his or her cultural beliefs, experiences, and history.

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The Silberman Collection is an unusually complete group of images that illustrate the artists’ fascination with the world outside the southern plains, their living conditions and survival strategies as prisoners, and their reminiscences of pre-reservation life.

Blackfoot War Art

After Lewis and Clark

Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880–2000

By L. James Dempsey

The Forces of Change, 1806–1871

By Gary Allen Hood

$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3804-6

96 pages · 9 × 12 · 67 color illus.

488 pages · 8 × 10 · 32 color and 128 b&w illus.

When the Blackfoot Indians were confined to reservations in the late nineteenth century, their pictographic representations of warfare kept alive the rituals associated with war, which were essential facets of Blackfoot culture. Their war ethic served as a unifying force among the four tribes of the Blackfoot nation—Siksika, Blood, and North and South Piegan.

In this visually stunning survey, L. James Dempsey plumbs the breadth and depth of warrior representational art. Filled with 160 images of startling beauty and power, Blackfoot War Art tells how pictographs served as a record of both tribal and personal accomplishment.

$24.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-9959-7

After Lewis and Clark highlights more than sixty paintings, drawings, and prints in the collection of one of America’s finest museums of American art, the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This richly illustrated book presents and places in aesthetic and historical context many of the priceless portraits, striking scenes, and grand landscapes inspired during the sixty-five years after the Corps of Discovery completed its epic journey. It features the works of notable artists of the nineteenth-century American West, including George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Bird King, Paul Kane, Seth Eastman, Carl Wimar, John Mix Stanley, Albert Bierstadt, and Thomas Moran.

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Thomas Moran Artist of the Mountains

By Thurman Wilkins

By David C. Hunt and Charles Banks Wilson

$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3040-8

$95.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-2151-2

464 pages · 7 ½ × 10 ¼ · 8 color photos

280 pages · 9 ¼ × 12 ¼ · 121 b&w illus.

and 35 halftones

The American West was the subject of Thomas Moran’s greatest artistic triumphs —Yosemite, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Zion Canyon, the Virgin River, Colorado’s Mountain of the Holy Cross, and the Grand Tetons—but his travels with Ferdinand V. Hayden’s geological surveys of the Upper Yellowstone were matched by trips to his native Britain and to Venice, Florida, the Spanish Southwest, and Old Mexico.

These scenes inspired memorable landscapes and seascapes, as did the sojourns of the Moran family in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and East Hampton, Long Island, when they retreated from the demands of the New York art scene.

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The Lithographs of Charles Banks Wilson

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Although known primarily for his illustrations, murals, and portraits, Charles Banks Wilson thinks of himself chiefly as a lithographer. “Lithography,” he says, “is what made an artist of me.” The 118 lithographs collected here, each reproduced from an original print in the artist’s own collection, represent fifty years of experience in the medium.

True to the American regionalist tradition that influenced him, Wilson has used his own surroundings as subject matter, producing an intensely personal record of his own time and place—an Oklahoma of varied landscapes and of farmers, cowboys, miners, and Indians. The prints reproduced here are a representative sample of Wilson’s long and prolific career in lithography.

Redrawing Boundaries

Sweet on the West

Perspectives on Western American Art

By Denver Art Museum

How Candy Built a Colorado Treasure

By Denver Art Museum

$21.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-9970-2

$21.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-9969-6

80 pages · 9 × 12 · 90 color illus.

80 pages · 9 × 12 · 68 color and 13 b&w illus.

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Distributed for Denver Art Museum

In this volume, seven distinguished specialists on art and popular culture—Brian W. Dippie, Erika Doss, Peter H. Hassrick, Patricia Limerick, Angela Miller, Martha A. Sandweiss, and William H. Truettner— survey the terrain of western art in the twenty-first century, tracing and refining its boundaries in the areas of aesthetics and national identity. Their sharp-eyed observations support a newly emerging history of western art that places it in a social, psychological, and political—as well as aesthetic—context. The result is a refreshing, vigorous, and substantial contribution to American art history.

William and Dorothy Harmsen were true American entrepreneurs whose ice-cream store, founded in 1949, grew into the wildly successful Jolly Rancher Candy Company.

This volume highlights the Harmsens’ legacy as Colorado businesspeople and philanthropists.

Bill and Dorothy lived their passion for the West, among other ways, through art.

Beginning in 1967, they built a collection that broadly encompassed the American West. They bought works by recognized masters of American western art such as George Catlin and Ernest L. Blumenschein, but they also acquired works by artists exploring contemporary approaches to timehonored western themes.

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West Point Points West

Heart of the West

By Denver Art Museum

New Painting and Sculpture of the American West

By Denver Art Museum

$21.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-9968-9 80 pages · 9 × 12 · 50 color and 36 b&w illus.

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During the nineteenth and even the twentieth centuries, military officers were expected to sketch battlefields and design fortifications.

Officers of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, which organized exploring expeditions, were asked to return with the information needed to map the expanding American West. Thus, the Military Academy at West Point incorporated art into its curriculum within a year after its creation in 1802.

West Point Points West celebrates the confluence of military mission and artistic pursuit. Five distinguished scholars— B. Byron Price, David Reel, John Pultz, Roger Echo-Hawk, and Joan Carpenter Troccoli— offer varying perspectives on the seminal role played by West Point and the U.S. Army in the development of western American art.

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$21.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-9971-9 64 pages · 9 × 12 · 50 color and 3 b&w illus.

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Because western art is by definition topical, it is also by necessity representational, and often narrative. Western artists must therefore rely on a certain degree of realism to express themselves visually. While this tendency toward realism is out of keeping with abstract impressionism, it resonates positively with today’s audiences.

Since the early 1990s, the Denver Art Museum has collected and exhibited the works of living American artists who celebrate western themes through representational forms of creative expression. Heart of the West pays tribute to those artists, in particular to the remarkable George Carlson. Their images embody the essence of the evolving American West.

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Charles M. Russell

The Artists’ Muse

By Natasha K. Brandstatter, Meredith M. Evans, Peter H. Hassrick, and Nicole A. Parks

By Peter H. Hassrick

$22.50 Paper · 978-0-914738-60-2 80 pages · 9 × 12 · 65 color and 11 b&w illus.

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Colorado has been a mecca for painters since the beginning of the nineteenth century. This latest volume in the Denver Art Museum’s Western Passages series celebrates a diverse group of painters who found special allegiance to the Rockies and to the human history of Colorado.

Many who ventured into Colorado in the 1800s sought inspiration in the land. The state attracted such masters of landscape painting as Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt, and Thomas Worthington Whittredge.

So pervasive and popular were images of Colorado’s peaks that some art historians have dubbed those who portrayed these sites as the “Rocky Mountain School.”

$34.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3142-9 156 pages · 8 ½ × 12 · 52 color and 57 b&w illus.

In 1880, Charles M. Russell headed west to Montana, where he worked as a wrangler and chronicled in paint, ink, and watercolor the West and its people. For his splendid depictions of bronco riders, roundups, and everyday ranch life, Russell soon became known as “the Cowboy Artist.”

Yet this “Cowboy Artist” also spent much time among the Indians and developed a sympathetic understanding of and appreciation for their efforts to preserve their way of life. Russell’s memorable paintings and drawings portray a frontier that was vanishing, not only for Indians but also for cowboys.

Peter H. Hassrick discusses Russell’s work in the context of the artist’s experiences in the West and the people who influenced his artistic style.

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Recollections of Charley Russell

Behind Every Man

By Frank Bird Linderman

The Story of Nancy Cooper Russell

By Joan Stauffer

$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-2112-3 196 pages · 6 × 9 · 4 color and 16 b&w illus.

“This skillfully written and delightful small book utilizes material which has been available to no other Russell biographer.

Frank Linderman and Russell were close friends and kindered spirits, and Linderman obviously recognized early in their association that Russell was not only an enormously talented artist but also a very uncommon man. The recollections are random, full of nostalgia, and they are often as revealing of Linderman’s sensitivity as they are of Russell’s character.”—The American

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$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3952-4 384 pages · 6 × 9 · 40 b&w illus.

After Nancy Cooper married Charlie Russell in 1895, she helped turn a journeyman cowboy and ranch hand who sketched and sculpted in his spare time into a full-time artist who sold and exhibited all over the globe. In Behind Every Man: The Story of Nancy Cooper Russell, Joan Stauffer offers the first biography of the person whom Charles Russell called “the best booster and pardner a man ever had.”

Stauffer’s portrait, evoked in the voice of its subject and based on a decade of research, offers readers both a complete life story of Nancy Russell and creative insight into her thoughts and feelings.

Charles M. Russell The Life and Legend of America’s Cowboy Artist

By John Taliaferro

Water Mills of the Missouri Ozarks

By George G. Suggs, Jr. Paintings and Illustrations by Jake K. Wells

$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3495-6

$16.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-2432-2

336 pages · 6 × 9 · 22 b&w illus.

240 pages · 9 × 6 · 27 color and 14 b&w illus.

This first comprehensive biography of Charles M. Russell examines the colorful life and times of Montana’s famed Cowboy Artist. Born to an affluent St. Louis family in 1864, young Russell read thrilling tales of the West and filled sketchbooks with imagined frontier scenes. At sixteen he left home and headed west to become a cowboy.

In Montana Territory he consorted with cowpunchers, Indians, preachers, saloon keepers, and prostitutes, while celebrating the waning American frontier’s glory days in some 4,000 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sculptures. He was revered as one of the country’s ranking Western artist with works displayed in the finest galleries, his romantic vision of the Old West forever shaping our own.

Until the early twentieth century, water mills were the center of the economic and social life of many small communities throughout the nation’s calm rural backwaters. In this book, George G. Suggs, Jr., presents the stories of twenty Ozark water mills, and Jake Wells illustrates these vignettes with drawings and beautiful watercolors.

In introducing his historical sketches, Suggs traces the transatlantic origins and development of water mills, describing their spread throughout Western Europe to North America and noting early American contributions to water mill technology. In an epilogue he emphasizes the economic and social roles of the mills in the early life of the Missouri Ozarks.

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George Miksch Sutton

María

Artist, Scientist, and Teacher

By Jerome A. Jackson

The Potter of San Ildefonso

By Alice Marriott

$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3745-2

$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-2048-5

288 pages · 6 ¼ × 9 ¼ · 28 color and 13 b&w illus.

316 pages · 6 × 9 · 35 b&w illus.

George Miksch Sutton (1898–1982) is revered by bird lovers everywhere for his beautiful paintings. A Victorian gentleman, adventurer, and raconteur, he was trained in the sciences but felt equally at home in the arts.

María: The Potter of San Ildefonso is the story of María Martínez and her husband, Julián, who revived the ancient Pueblo craft of pottery-making and stimulated interest in Southwestern Pueblo pottery among both white people and Indians.

Jerome Jackson, a friend and colleague of Sutton, draws on extant correspondence, interviews, and personal knowledge to offer a portrait of the artist that will surprise those who knew him only in his later years. Capturing a superb ornithologist who worked under the most inhospitable conditions, from the arctic to the tropics, Jackson shows us a person who guarded his privacy and struggled with uncertainty.

Margaret Lefranc’s many accurate drawings of actual pieces of pottery provide an almost complete documentary history of the craft and show some of the finest examples of María’s art.

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“Miss Marriott’s literary style is superb. She has caught the beautiful, measured pace of Indian talk and, without seeming to make any conscious effort, has written María’s story with simplicity and understanding as if María herself were living her life before you.”—Will Davidson in the Chicago Sunday Tribune.

Fire Light

Patterns of Exchange

The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist

By Linda M. Waggoner

Navajo Weavers and Traders

By Teresa J. Wilkins

$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3954-8

248 pages · 6 × 9 · 8 color and 19 b&w illus.

352 pages · 6 × 9 · 40 b&w illus.

Artist, teacher, and Red Progressive, Angel De Cora (1869–1919) painted Fire Light to capture warm memories of her Nebraska Winnebago childhood. In this biography, Linda M. Waggoner draws on that glowing image to illuminate De Cora’s life and artistry, which until now have been largely overlooked by scholars.

Waggoner brings her broad knowledge of Winnebago culture and history to this gracefully written book, which features more than forty illustrations. Fire Light shows us both a consummate artist and a fully realized woman, who learned how to traverse the borders of Red identity in a white man’s world.

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The Navajo rugs and textiles people buy today are the result of many historical influences, particularly the interaction between Navajo weavers and the traders who guided their production and controlled their sale. John Lorenzo Hubbell and other late-nineteenthcentury traders were convinced they knew which patterns and colors would appeal to Anglo-American buyers, and so they heavily encouraged those designs. In Patterns of Exchange, Teresa J. Wilkins traces how the relationships between Navajo weavers and traders affected Navajo weaving.

Enhanced by numerous illustrations, this volume traces the intricate play of cultural and economic pressures and personal relationships between artists and traders that guided Navajo weavers to produce textiles that are today emblems of the Native American Southwest.

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Silver Horn

By John Adair

Master Illustrator of the Kiowas

By Candace Greene

$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-2215-1

$34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3307-2

262 pages · 5 ½ × 8 ¼ · 28 b&w illus.

360 pages · 7 × 10 · 43 color and 113 b&w illus.

“The analysis of the economic aspects of the craft is painstaking and well carried out. Reading between the lines one must inevitable envisage the long weary hours spent in traveling to the isolated hogans and trading posts in quest of these data.

This is no armchair compilation, but one that carries with it the tang of juniper wood burning in winter hogans, of the wet earth after a sturdy ’he’ rain and the odor of coffee and mutton cooking over open fires. It is a labor of love plus a lot of sweat.”—New York Herald Tribune.

Plains Indians were artists as well as warriors, and Silver Horn (1860-1940), a Kiowa artist from the early reservation period, may well have been the most prolific Plains Indian artist of all time.

Known also as Haungooah, his Kiowa name, Silver Horn was a man of remarkable skill and talent. Working in graphite, colored pencil, crayon, pen and ink, and watercolor on hide, muslin, and paper, he produced more than one thousand illustrations between 1870 and 1920.

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In this presentation of Silver Horn’s work, showcasing 43 color and 116 black-andwhite illustrations, Candace S. Greene provides a thorough biographical portrait of the artist and, through his work, assesses the concepts and roles of artists in Kiowa culture.

Gifts of Pride and Love Kiowa and Comanche Cradles

By Barbara A. Hail

American Indians in British Art, 1700–1840

By Stephanie Pratt

$29.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3604-2

$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3657-8

136 pages · 9 × 11 · 53 color and 78 b&w illus.

240 pages · 8 × 10 · 17 color and 34 b&w illus.

“We look as representing representingaaparticular particular look at this cradle cradle as see that that someone someonetook tooktime timetotocreate createit;it; family; we we see we feel the love that it expresses; it speaks to us;itit we love that expresses; speaks to us; our past.”—Philip past.”—Philip Bread tells us of our Bread

Ask anyone the world over to identify a figure in buckskins with a feather bonnet, and the answer will be “Indian.” Many works of art produced by non-Native artists have reflected such a limited viewpoint. In American Indians in British Art, 1700–1840, Stephanie Pratt explores for the first time an artistic tradition that avoided simplification and that instead portrayed Native peoples in a surprisingly complex light.

This book, a beautiful homage to the artisans who crafted cradleboards, includes a history of the origins of lattice cradles as well as essays by eleven descendants of cradle makers. Forty color and over eighty black-and-white photographs vividly display the creativity and imagination found in these lovingly produced cradles. Reminding people of the Kiowas’ and the Comanches’ long, arduous struggles to create and maintain a viable identity, the cradles featured in this book connect us to the past.

Pratt places artistic works in historical context and traces a movement away from abstraction, where Indians were symbols rather than actual people, to representational art, which portrayed Indians as actors on the colonial stage.

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Images of Penance, Images of Mercy

Aztec Art

Southwestern Santos in the Late 19th Century

By William Wroth

By Esther Pasztory

$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-2326-4

512 pages · 8 × 12 · 75 color and 319 b&w illus.

214 pages · 9 × 12 · 115 color and 37 b&w illus.

In part 1 of this study, William Wroth traces the origins and growing importance of penitential practices in the early Christian church, through medieval Spain and colonial Mexico, to New Mexico and Colorado. In part 2 a vivid description of the rituals and social functions of the Brotherhood by Marta Weigle is followed by Wroth’s catalog of the expressive and moving santos in the Taylor Museum of Southwestern Studies, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

“Wroth skillfully illuminates the meaning behind this religious art, examining the Catholic concept and practice of penance among early Christians in Medieval Europe and Spain, in colonial Mexico, and in Cathloic Brotherhoods still extant in New Mexico.”—Choice

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This is the first comprehensive book on Aztec art: eleven chapters illustrated with seventyfive superb color plates and hundreds of photographs, supplemented by maps and diagrams. Temple architecture, majestic stone sculpture carved without metal tools, featherwork and turquoise mosaic, painted books, and sculptures in terra cotta and rare stones—all are here.

Pasztory has placed these major works of Pre-Columbian art in a historical context, relating them to the reigns of individual rulers, events in Aztec history, and the needs of different social groups from the elite to the farmer. She focuses on the littleknown aspects of the aesthetics, poetry and humanity of the Aztecs.

Tiwanaku

Asia and Spanish America

Papers from the 2005 Mayer Center Symposium at the Denver Art Museum Edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez

Trans-Pacific Artistic and Cultural Exchange, 1500–1850 Edited by Donna Pierce and Ronald Otsuka

$45.00s Paper · 978-0-8061-9972-6

$39.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-9973-3

264 pages · 8 ½ × 11 · 103 color and 66 b&w illus.

208 pages · 8 ½ × 11 · 196 color illus.

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In 2005, the Denver Art Museum hosted a symposium in conjunction with the exhibition Tiwanaku: Ancestors of the Inca. An international array of scholars of Tiwanaku, Wari, and Inca art and archaeology presented results of the latest research conducted in Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. This copiously illustrated volume, edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez of the Denver Art Museum, presents revised and amplified papers from the symposium.

The Denver Art Museum held a symposium in 2006 to examine a little-known aspect of globalization in the early modern era.

Specialists in the arts and history of Asia and Latin America came from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to present recent research on connections between the two areas.

This volume presents revised and expanded versions of the papers presented at the symposium.

Bringing together current research on Pucara, Tiwanaku, Wari, and Inca art and archaeology, this volume will be an important resource for scholars and enthusiasts of ancient South America.

An interdisciplinary study bringing together scholars from two fields of art and addressing a variety of artistic media, this beautifully illustrated volume will be an important resource for scholars and enthusiasts of Asian and Latin American art and history.

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Faces of the Frontier Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845–1924

By Frank H. Goodyear III With an Essay by Richard White $45.00s Cloth · 978-8061-4082-7 320 pages · 9 × 12 · 127 color and 20 b&w Illus. published in cooperation with the national portrait gallery

Faces of the Frontier showcases more than 120 photographic portraits of leaders, statesmen, soldiers, laborers, activists, criminals, and others, all posed before the cameras that made their way to nearly every mining shanty-town and frontier outpost on the prairie. The names of some are familiar— Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Sitting Bull, Annie Oakley. The names of others may be less well known, but they played a significant role in re-creating the American West. These are all people of the West, and their portraits give us a unique glimpse into a lost time and place.

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Peoples of the Plateau

Lanterns on the Prairie

The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse, 1898–1915

By Steven L. Grafe

The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock Edited by Steven L. Grafe

$29.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3742-1

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224 pages · 10 ¼ × 10 ¼ · 104 b&w illus.

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The photographs in Peoples of the Plateau capture the lives of Pacific Northwest Indians at the turn of the twentieth century. By the late nineteenth century, after the U.S. government had confined these Indians to a reservation, their lives began to change irrevocably. Major Lee Moorhouse served as an Indian agent during this period.

Believing that these Indians were a “dying race,” Moorhouse was driven to collect their artifacts and take their photographs.

This book marks the first major examination of Moorhouse and his work. Featuring eighty exquisite plates, it not only showcases Moorhouse’s extensive photographs but also tells the story of the man and of the world in which he lived and worked.

336 pages · 10 × 11 · 12 color and 116 b&w illus.

In 1896, a young easterner named Walter McClintock arrived on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. A forest survey had brought him to Montana, but a chance encounter with a part-Blackfeet scout led him instead to a career as a chronicler of Plains Indian life. McClintock is now well known as the author of two books about his experiences among the Blackfeet, but only a few of his photographs have ever been published.

This volume features biographical and interpretive essays about McClintock’s life and work and presents more than one hundred of his little-known images.

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A Danish Photographer of Idaho Indians

Placing Memory A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment Photographs by Todd Stewart Essays by Natasha Egan and Karen J. Leong

Benedicte Wrensted

By Joanna Cohan Scherer $29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3684-4 160 pages · 9 × 11 ½ · 176 duotone illus.

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and 2 maps

132 pages · 12 × 9 · 62 color

With A Danish Photographer of Idaho Indians, Joanna Cohan Scherer rescues from oblivion a remarkable photographer—Benedicte Wrensted—who greatly contributed to the visual legacy of the Northern Shoshone, Lemhi, and Bannock American Indian tribes. This volume reproduces a number of Wrensted’s photographs including the names of the subjects, their biographical data, and an ethnographic analysis of their Native attire.

A Danish Photographer of Idaho Indians redresses decades of neglect by restoring both Wrensted and her Indian subjects to a place in history— Wrensted as a distinguished photographer and her clients as named persons.

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When the U.S. government incarcerated 120,000 Japanese Americans as “domestic enemy aliens” during World War II, most other Americans succumbed to their fears and endorsed the confinement of their fellow citizens. Ten “relocation centers” were scattered across the West. Today, in the crumbling foundations, overgrown yards, and material artifacts of these former internment camps, we can still sense the injustices suffered there.

Placing Memory is a powerful visual record of the internment. Featuring Todd Stewart’s stunning color photographs of the sites as they appear today, the book provides a rigorous visual survey of the physical features of the camps.

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A Northern Cheyenne Album Photographs by Thomas B. Marquis Edited by Margot Liberty Commentary by John Woodenlegs

Gypsy Horses and the Travelers’ Way

By John S. Hockensmith $49.95 Cloth · 978-1-59975-597-7

$29.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3893-0

184 pages · 9 ½ × 12 · 255 color photographs

304 pages · 9 × 9 · 142 b&w illus.

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In 1878 the Northern Cheyennes left what is now Oklahoma, where they had been incarcerated, and began an epic journey back to their homeland. They suffered great losses, but a small group of survivors reached its destination in southeastern Montana in 1879 and eventually won the right to a reservation there. A Northern Cheyenne Album presents a rare series of never-before-published photographs that document the lives of tribal people on the reservation during the early twentieth century—a period of rapid change.

On the first weekend of every June, Gypsies in northern England honor a tradition more than three centuries old. Having traveled for days and dozens of miles in ornate wagons pulled by colorful short-legged horses called cobs, they converge on the township of Appleby to buy and sell horses. This remarkable journey and its culminating celebration at Appleby Fair are seldom witnessed by outsiders to the Romani Gypsy culture.

“For anyone interested in seeing a cultural transition chronicled in pictures and narratives, this book is a gold mine.”— Richard E. Littlebear, President of Chief Dull Knife College

Hockensmith traveled as a guest of prominent Gypsy families on the back roads and highways leading to Appleby and recorded the drama of the gathering of people and horses as can be seen only from inside this guarded clan.

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Spanish Mustangs in the Great American West Return of the Horse to America

By John S. Hockensmith $49.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-9975-7

Unconquered and Unconquerable

By Jeannie Barbour, Dr. Amanda Cobb-Greetham and Linda Hogan Photography by David G. Fitzgerald

204 pages · 9 ½ × 12 · 275 color photographs

$34.95s Cloth · 978-1-55868-992-3

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128 pages · 10 × 13 · 145 color and 17 b&w illus.

Horses are an integral part of the American experience. They are so tied with the development of the nation and its psyche, it is impossible to imagine history without them. Yet prior to the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 1500s, horses had been absent from North America for millennia. In this beautifully illustrated volume, celebrated equine photographer John S. Hockensmith reveals how the return of horses with the conquistadors both altered American Indian cultures and later supported the development of the United States.

Gracing these pages are stunning full-color photographs of modern horses that carry the distinctive traits of their Spanish, Arab, and Barb forebears.

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Chickasaw

Photography

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“The story of the Chickasaw Nation is one of survival, persistence, triumph, achievement, and beauty. It is the story of a people determined not only to survive but to prosper and live well. Built with this fundamental ideal, Chickasaw government stands on a foundation that serves its people with the ebb and flow of history’s events. It is a chronicle of unsurpassed natural splendor and spiritual connectivity to the land that can never be permanently separated from the hearts of Chickasaws.”— Bill Anoatubby, Governor of the Chickasaw Nation

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Chickasaw Renaissance

Oklahoma

By Phillip Carroll Morgan Photography by David G. Fitzgerald

A Portrait of America

By Libby Bender, Carl Brune, and Scott Raffe

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$49.95 Cloth · 978-0-9800214-0-0

240 pages · 10 × 13 · 131 color and 18 b&w illus.

368 pages · 10 × 11 · 280 color and 70 b&w illus.

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When Oklahoma achieved statehood in 1907, the U.S. government declared Chickasaw titles to tribal lands null and void. The Chickasaw Nation was, in effect, legally abolished. Yet for the next sixty years, the Chickasaws struggled to regain their sovereign identity, and eventually, in 1970, Congress enacted legislation allowing the Five Tribes, including the Chickasaws, to elect their own governing officers. In 1983, the Chickasaws adopted a new constitution for their nation.

This collaborative work is an ode to the forty-sixth state, to its stereotypes and its surprises. Yet it is still a young and raw and evolving territory, a mosaic that morphed into a state just one hundred years ago.

In Chickasaw Renaissance, Phillip Carroll Morgan profiles the experiences of the Chickasaw people during this tumultuous period in their history, from the dissolution of their government to the resurgence of their nation.

From the Native Americans who roamed the plains with the buffalo to the cowboys who came with the cattle, from the oil barons to the outlaws, the settlers and Sooners, the proud African Americans who believed this was their Paradise Found, and all the others who came to make a new life in this territory, all together form the very center of the United States. They are depicted here in 350 photographs.

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Pilgrim Eye

Route 66

Photographs and text by David Halpern

The Highway and Its People Text by Susan Croce Kelly Photographic essay by Quinta Scott

$50.00 Cloth · 978-0-9788165-0-6 168 pages · 10 ¼ × 12 ¼ · 28 color and 100 b&w illus.

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224 pages · 8 × 10 · 80 b&w illus.

David Halpern’s life and career span remarkable developments in the history of modern photography, from the introduction of Kodachrome film in 1936 to the current digital era. As a fine art and commercial photographer, Halpern has embraced each new technology and applied them to a wide range of subjects.

[Route 66’s] appeal lies in the graceful way it explores the impact of that long black ribbon on the lives of the people who lived beside it and in the book’s explanation of how U.S.66 ’became a highway the country could not forget.’...Today, as this book’s text and photographs emphasize, there’s not much left besides the legend. But while the new interstates are faster and safer, it is impossible not to miss old Route 66.

Fortunately, the words and pictures of this delightful book preserve the memories of a road that ran through everyone’s life.”

—Wall Street Journal

In Pilgrim Eye, Halpern provides a revealing glimpse into his lifelong journey of selfdiscovery. The book showcases 128 color and black-and-white photographs made over more than fifty years of pilgrimages across America.

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American Windmills

A Texas Journey

An Album of Historic Photographs

By T. Lindsay Baker

The Centennial Photographs of Polly Smith

By Evelyn Barker

$34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3802-2

$49.95 Cloth · 978-0-9800557-0-2

168 pages · 9 × 9 · 179 b&w illus.

248 pages · 10 × 10 · 80 b&w illus.

From the earliest days of European settlement, Americans have cherished the sight of a windmill—an instantly recognizable feature of the American landscape. Boasting nearly two hundred striking images, this book is the first devoted to photographs illustrating historic wind machines throughout North America.

T. Lindsay Baker, an expert historian on windmills, has written about wind-power history for twenty-five years. His album contains historic images captured by professional windmiller B. H. “Tex” Burdick and from corporate archives of windmill manufacturers. It depicts windmills in a wide range of settings and uses—not only on ranches and farms but also alongside railroads, in industry, and even in urban areas.

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In 1935, Texas was preparing for a world’s fair to commemorate the centennial of its independence from Mexico. Centennial officials eager to publicize the event needed an abundance of photographic images that would put the state in the best possible light. They hired a young photographer, Polly Smith, who had recently returned from studying in New York, to travel the length and width of the state. Her mission was to capture the people and places that made Texas unique. A Texas Journey: The Centennial Photographs of Polly Smith is the first examination of Smith’s life and work.

The images presented here offer a revealing portrait of the Lone Star State in 1935.

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Where Custer Fell Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now

By James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, and Sandy Barnard

240 pages · 9 × 12 · 217 b&w illus., 15 maps

The Battle of the Little Bighorn has long held an eminent position among the chronicles of the mythic West. None of the men who rode with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer to his “Last Stand” survived to tell the tale, but this stunning photography book provides a view of the battlefield as it must have existed in 1876.

To create Where Custer Fell, authors James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, and Sandy Barnard searched for elusive documents and photographs, made countless trips to the battlefield, and scrutinized all available sources. Each chapter begins with a concise, lively description of an episode in the battle.

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Photographs Across a Century

By Mary Meagher and Douglas B. Houston $19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3006-4 304 pages · 11 × 11 · 287 b&w illus., 13 maps

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Yellowstone and the Biology of Time

Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park is the oldest and one of the largest national parks in the world. In this remarkable book, scientists Mary Meagher and Douglas B. Houston present 100 sets of photographs that compare the Yellowstone of old with the park of today.

Most of the photo sets include three pictures with many of the original views dating back to the 1870s and 1880s. Meagher and Houston rephotographed the scenes in the 1970s, and then, following the great fires of 1988, again in the 1990s. The result is an illuminating record of Yellowstone’s dynamic ecosystem and its changes over time.

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By John Martin Campbell $19.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-9964-1 $14.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-9965-8 200 pages · 10 ½ × 8 ½ · 71 b&w illus.

In words that are as clean and precise as his haunting, starkly beautiful photographs, John Martin Campbell vividly recreates the life and times of the western homestead era, the period from about 1885 when the prairie lands lying west of the longitude of the western Dakotas became available to pioneering farmers. More than 70 blackand-white duotone photographs, with detailed captions, record bleak landscapes and abandoned farms, outbuildings, farm implements, and hand tools—mute testimonies to the failed hopes of several million families who settled on these arid and semi-arid lands.

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ON the back: Evelyn Cameron, Self-portrait on natural bridge. courtesy Montana Historical Society Research Center Photograph Archives.

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Coming Spring 2010 Visions of the Big Sky

By Dan Flores

$45.00 cloth · 978-0-8061-3897-8 248 pages · 10 × 10 · 140 color illus.

Luis Ortega’s Rawhide Artistry

By Chuck Stormes and Don Reeves $55.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4055-1 $29.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4091-9 160 pages · 9 × 11 · 71 color and 31 B&W illus.