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 Art 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 best-
known 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
$65.00 cloth · 978-0-8061-3533-5
640 pages · 8½ × 11 · 339 color and 116 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 Prize-
winning 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.
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
The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein
By Peter H. Hassrick and
Elizabeth J. Cunningham
$34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-3948-7
416 pages · 10 × 12 · 133 color and 24 b&w Illus.
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.
Charles Deas and 1840s America
By Carol Clark
$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.
Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet
An Impressionist at Glacier National Park
By William E. Farr
$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
The Autobiography of Alexander
Phimister Proctor
Second Edition
Edited by Katharine C. Ebner
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4007-0
244 pages · 9 × 12 · 30 color and 100 b&w illus.
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.
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Follow the Sun
Robert Lougheed
By Don Hedgpeth
$65.00s cloth · 978-0-578-03970-1
360 pages · 11 ¼ × 11 ½ · 334 color and 85 b&w illus.
Distributed for Diamond Trail Press
Coming january 2010
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.
Sentimental Journey
The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller
By Lisa Strong
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-88360-105-1
238 pages · 10 ½ × 11 · 100 color illus.
Distributed for Amon Carter Museum
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.
“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
Earthlings
The Paintings of Tom Palmore
By Susan Hallsten McGarry
$45.00s Cloth · 978-1-934397-05-3
120 pages · 9 ½ × 10 ¾ · 160 color illus.
Distributed for Tom Quaid Publishing
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.
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 The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art
at the University of Oklahoma
Selected Works
By Eric McCauley Lee and Rima Canaan
$59.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3673-8
$39.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3680-6
292 pages · 9 × 11 · 280 color 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.
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A Western Legacy
The National Cowboy and Western
Heritage Museum
Introduction by David Dary
$59.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3728-5
$29.95 paper · 978-0-8061-3731-5
256 pages · 10 × 12 ½ · 274 color and 50 b&w illus.
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.
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
Selections from the Permanent Collection
By Sarah Erwin, Anne Morand, Kevin Smith,
and Daniel C. Swan
$39.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-9955-9
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-9956-6
198 pages · 9 ½ × 13 ½ · 179 color and 16 b&w illus.
Distributed for Gilcrease Museum
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.
Charles Banks Wilson
Contributions by Randy Ramer, Carole
Klein, Anne Morand, and Carol Haralson
$19.95s Paper · 978-0-9725657-3-8
200 pages · 9 × 10 · 97 color and 97 b&w illus.
Distributed for Gilcrease Museum
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
The Senate Collection
By Bob Burke
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-9725657-6-9
218 pages · 9 ½ × 10 ½ · 107 color illus.
Distributed for Gilcrease Museum
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.
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Willard Stone
By Randy Ramer, Carole Klein, Kimberly
Roblin, and Regan Hansen,
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-9725657-4-5
190 pages · 9 × 10 · 165 color and 56 b&w illus.
Distributed for Gilcrease Museum
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.
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
Contributions by Randy Ramer, Carole
Klein, Kimberly Roblin, Gary Moore, Anne
Morand, April Miller, and Eric Singleton
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-9725657-7-6
192 pages · 9 × 10 · 116 color and 146 b&w illus.
Distributed for Gilcrease Museum
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.
Uprising!
Woody Crumbo’s Indian Art
By Robert Perry
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-5-6
256 pages · 9 × 12 · 36 Color and 74 B&W Illus.
Distributed for Chickasaw Press
The life of Woodrow “Woody” Crumbo
(1912–1989) parallels the twentieth-
century 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
Elders of the Chickasaw Nation
By Mike Larsen and Martha Larsen
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-9797858-4-9
144 pages · 9 × 12 · 25 color and 40 b&w illus.
Distributed for Chickasaw Press
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.  and paintings examines an important
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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Art from Fort Marion
The Silberman Collection
By Joyce M. Szabo
$49.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3883-1
$29.95 paper · 978-0-8061-3889-3
208 pages · 9 × 11 · 130 color illus.
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
collection of these drawings to reveal how
art blossomed at Fort Marion.
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
Pictographs of the Reservation Period,
1880–2000
By L. James Dempsey
$45.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3804-6
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.
After Lewis and Clark
The Forces of Change, 1806–1871
By Gary Allen Hood
$24.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-9959-7
96 pages · 9 × 12 · 67 color illus.
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
$39.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3040-8
464 pages · 7 ½ × 10 ¼ · 8 color photos
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
By David C. Hunt and Charles Banks Wilson
$95.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-2151-2
280 pages · 9 ¼ × 12 ¼ · 121 b&w illus.
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
Perspectives on Western American Art
By Denver Art Museum
$21.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-9970-2
80 pages · 9 × 12 · 90 color illus.
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.
Sweet on the West
How Candy Built a Colorado Treasure
By Denver Art Museum
$21.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-9969-6
80 pages · 9 × 12 · 68 color and 13 b&w illus.
Distributed for Denver Art Museum
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 time-
honored western themes.
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 West Point Points West
By Denver Art Museum
$21.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-9968-9
80 pages · 9 × 12 · 50 color and 36 b&w illus.
Distributed for Denver Art Museum
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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Heart of the West
New Painting and Sculpture of
the American West
By Denver Art Museum
$21.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-9971-9
64 pages · 9 × 12 · 50 color and 3 b&w illus.
Distributed for Denver Art Museum
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.
Colorado
The Artists’ Muse
By Natasha K. Brandstatter, Meredith M.
Evans, Peter H. Hassrick, and Nicole A. Parks
$22.50 Paper · 978-0-914738-60-2
80 pages · 9 × 12 · 65 color and 11 b&w illus.
Distributed for Denver Art Museum
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.”
Charles M. Russell
By Peter H. Hassrick
$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
By Frank Bird Linderman
$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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Behind Every Man
The Story of Nancy Cooper Russell
By Joan Stauffer
$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
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3495-6
336 pages · 6 × 9 · 22 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.
Water Mills of the
Missouri Ozarks
By George G. Suggs, Jr.
Paintings and Illustrations by Jake K. Wells
$16.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-2432-2
240 pages · 9 × 6 · 27 color and 14 b&w illus.
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
Artist, Scientist, and Teacher
By Jerome A. Jackson
$29.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3745-2
288 pages · 6 ¼ × 9 ¼ · 28 color and 13 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.
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.
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María
The Potter of San Ildefonso
By Alice Marriott
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-2048-5
316 pages · 6 × 9 · 35 b&w illus.
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.
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.
“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
The Life of Angel De Cora,
Winnebago Artist
By Linda M. Waggoner
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3954-8
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.
Patterns of Exchange
Navajo Weavers and Traders
By Teresa J. Wilkins
$34.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3757-5
248 pages · 6 × 9 · 8 color and 19 b&w illus.
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-nineteenth-
century 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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 The Navajo and Pueblo
Silversmiths
By John Adair
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-2215-1
262 pages · 5 ½ × 8 ¼ · 28 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.
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Silver Horn
Master Illustrator of the Kiowas
By Candace Greene
$34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3307-2
360 pages · 7 × 10 · 43 color and 113 b&w illus.
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.
In this presentation of Silver Horn’s work,
showcasing 43 color and 116 black-and-
white 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 American Indians in British Art,
Kiowa and Comanche Cradles 1700–1840
By Barbara A. Hail 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
look at this cradle as representing
cradle as representingaaparticular
particular Ask anyone the world over to identify a
family; we see that
we see that someone
someonetooktooktime
timetotocreate
createit;it; figure in buckskins with a feather bonnet,
we
we feel the love that it expresses; it speaks
love that expresses; speaks to us; to us;itit and the answer will be “Indian.” Many
tells us of our past.”—Philip Bread
our past.”—Philip Bread works of art produced by non-Native artists
have reflected such a limited viewpoint. In
This book, a beautiful homage to the
American Indians in British Art, 1700–1840,
artisans who crafted cradleboards, includes
Stephanie Pratt explores for the first time an
a history of the origins of lattice cradles
artistic tradition that avoided simplification
as well as essays by eleven descendants of
and that instead portrayed Native peoples in
cradle makers. Forty color and over eighty
a surprisingly complex light.
black-and-white photographs vividly display
the creativity and imagination found in these Pratt places artistic works in historical
lovingly produced cradles. Reminding people context and traces a movement away from
of the Kiowas’ and the Comanches’ long, abstraction, where Indians were symbols
arduous struggles to create and maintain a rather than actual people, to representa-
viable identity, the cradles featured in this tional art, which portrayed Indians as actors
book connect us to the past. on the colonial stage.

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 Images of Penance, Images of Mercy
Southwestern Santos in the Late 19th Century
By William Wroth
$24.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-2326-4
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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Aztec Art
By Esther Pasztory
$36.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-2536-7
512 pages · 8 × 12 · 75 color and 319 b&w illus.
This is the first comprehensive book on Aztec
art: eleven chapters illustrated with seventy-
five 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 little-
known aspects of the aesthetics, poetry and
humanity of the Aztecs.
Tiwanaku
Papers from the 2005 Mayer Center
Symposium at the Denver Art Museum
Edited by Margaret Young-Sánchez
$45.00s Paper · 978-0-8061-9972-6
264 pages · 8 ½ × 11 · 103 color and 66 b&w illus.
Distributed for Denver Art Museum
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.
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.
Asia and Spanish America
Trans-Pacific Artistic and Cultural
Exchange, 1500–1850
Edited by Donna Pierce and Ronald Otsuka
$39.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-9973-3
208 pages · 8 ½ × 11 · 196 color illus.
Distributed for Denver Art Museum
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.
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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 Photography
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
The Indian Photographs of Lee Moorhouse,
1898–1915
By Steven L. Grafe
$29.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3742-1
224 pages · 10 ¼ × 10 ¼ · 104 b&w illus.
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.
Lanterns on the Prairie
The Blackfeet Photographs of
Walter McClintock
Edited by Steven L. Grafe
$60.00s Cloth · 978-0-8061-4022-3
$34.95s Paper · 978-0-8061-4029-2
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
Benedicte Wrensted
By Joanna Cohan Scherer
$29.95s Cloth · 978-0-8061-3684-4
160 pages · 9 × 11 ½ · 176 duotone illus.
and 2 maps
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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Placing Memory
A Photographic Exploration of Japanese
American Internment
Photographs by Todd Stewart
Essays by Natasha Egan and Karen J. Leong
$34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3951-7
132 pages · 12 × 9 · 62 color
and 40 b&w photos, 10 maps
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.
A Northern Cheyenne Album
Photographs by Thomas B. Marquis
Edited by Margot Liberty
Commentary by John Woodenlegs
$29.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3893-0
304 pages · 9 × 9 · 142 b&w illus.
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.
“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
Gypsy Horses and the
Travelers’ Way
By John S. Hockensmith
$49.95 Cloth · 978-1-59975-597-7
184 pages · 9 ½ × 12 · 255 color photographs
Distributed for John S. Hockensmith
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.
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
204 pages · 9 ½ × 12 · 275 color photographs
Distributed for John S. Hockensmith
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
Unconquered and Unconquerable
By Jeannie Barbour, Dr. Amanda
Cobb-Greetham and Linda Hogan
Photography by David G. Fitzgerald
$34.95s Cloth · 978-1-55868-992-3
128 pages · 10 × 13 · 145 color and 17 b&w illus.
Distributed for Chickasaw Press
“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
Chickasaw Renaissance Oklahoma
By Phillip Carroll Morgan A Portrait of America
Photography by David G. Fitzgerald By Libby Bender, Carl Brune, and Scott Raffe

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240 pages · 10 × 13 · 131 color and 18 b&w illus. 368 pages · 10 × 11 · 280 color and 70 b&w illus.
Distributed for Chickasaw Press Distributed for Billy Books

When Oklahoma achieved statehood This collaborative work is an ode to the

in 1907, the U.S. government declared forty-sixth state, to its stereotypes and its
Chickasaw titles to tribal lands null and surprises. Yet it is still a young and raw and
void. The Chickasaw Nation was, in effect, evolving territory, a mosaic that morphed
legally abolished. Yet for the next sixty years, into a state just one hundred years ago.
the Chickasaws struggled to regain their
From the Native Americans who roamed the
sovereign identity, and eventually, in 1970,
plains with the buffalo to the cowboys who
Congress enacted legislation allowing the
came with the cattle, from the oil barons to
Five Tribes, including the Chickasaws, to
the outlaws, the settlers and Sooners, the
elect their own governing officers. In 1983,
proud African Americans who believed this
the Chickasaws adopted a new constitution
was their Paradise Found, and all the others
for their nation.
who came to make a new life in this territory,
In Chickasaw Renaissance, Phillip Carroll all together form the very center of the
Morgan profiles the experiences of the United States. They are depicted here in 350
Chickasaw people during this tumultuous photographs.
period in their history, from the dissolution
of their government to the resurgence of
their nation.

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 Pilgrim Eye
Photographs and text by David Halpern
$50.00 Cloth · 978-0-9788165-0-6
168 pages · 10 ¼ × 12 ¼ · 28 color
and 100 b&w illus.
Distributed for gneissline publishing
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.
In Pilgrim Eye, Halpern provides a revealing
glimpse into his lifelong journey of self-
discovery. The book showcases 128 color
and black-and-white photographs made
over more than fifty years of pilgrimages
across America.
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Route 66
The Highway and Its People
Text by Susan Croce Kelly
Photographic essay by Quinta Scott
$19.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-2291-5
224 pages · 8 × 10 · 80 b&w illus.
[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
American Windmills
An Album of Historic Photographs
By T. Lindsay Baker
$34.95 Cloth · 978-0-8061-3802-2
168 pages · 9 × 9 · 179 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.
A Texas Journey
The Centennial Photographs of Polly Smith
By Evelyn Barker
$49.95 Cloth · 978-0-9800557-0-2
248 pages · 10 × 10 · 80 b&w illus.
Distributed for Dallas Historical Society
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
$26.95 Paper · 978-0-8061-3834-3
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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Yellowstone and the Biology
of Time
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
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.

Magnificent Failure
A Portrait of the Western Homestead Era
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 black-
and-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 front: Charles Deas, detail from Long Jakes, “the
Rocky Mountain Man,” (1844). Oil on canvas, 30 × 25 in.
courtesy the denver art museum and the anschutz
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ON the back: Evelyn Cameron, Self-portrait on natural
bridge. courtesy Montana Historical Society Research
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Art & Photography

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.