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Splicing essays, memoirs, letters, stories, articles, poems and Native American songs and chants with paintings, drawings and photographs, this magnificent album conjures a sense of the American West as frontier, manifest destiny, site of brutal conquest and visionary realm where Americans seek to redefine themselves. John Wesley Powell's harrowing reconstruction of his historic expedition through the Grand Canyon in 1869, Emma Mitchell New's somber, moving account of life on the Kansas frontier, N. Scott Momaday's exploration of his mystical feeling of connectedness to his Kiowa ancestors are distinctive voices among the eclectic selections, including writings by Mark Twain, Leslie Marmon Silko, James Welch and Rudolfo Anaya. Artwork by George Catlin, Thomas Hart Benton, Georgia O'Keeffe, David Hockney, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and others complete a chronicle of exploration, conquest, settlement and development. Contemporary writers Ivan Doig, Pam Houston and Wallace Stegner investigate the West's promise and possibilities. T.H. Watkins (The Great Depression) and writer/photographer Joan Watkins have created a stirring, serendipitous treasury.
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The strength of this eclectic gathering of memoirs, travelogs, stories, essays, photographs, paintings, drawings, songs, and poems is its scope and calculated diversity. In broad strokes a panoramic overview of the American West emerges, culled from snippets of Native American chants; standard writers like Lewis and Clark, Parkman, Twain, Cather, Muir, and Grey; and lesser-known memoirists and historians. The New West is represented by such staples as McMurtry, Stegner, Waters, Abbey, Snyder, Doig, and Houston. Illustrations likewise range from prehistoric evocations to jarringly modern Native American paintings, with a good deal of Catlin, Remington, Russell, Moran, and O'Keeffe in between. A bibliography is unfortunately lacking. This large, handsome book is recommended for larger public and academic collections for its range and variety rather than for blazing new ground.
Russell T. Clement, Brigham Young Univ. Lib., Provo, Ut.
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- PublisherBeaux Arts Editions
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0883639599
- ISBN 13 9780883639597
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages384
- EditorT. H. Watkins, Joan Watkins
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