Life on the Texas Range

Smith, Erwin E.; Haley, J. Evetts

ISBN 10: 0292776837 / ISBN 13: 9780292776838

Published by Univ of Texas Pr, Austin, Texas, U.S.A., 1994

About this Item

M K Brown Range Life Series #14. Photographs by Erwin E Smith. Minimal wear at the edges. A very good or better copy.

Seller Inventory # 004898

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life on the Texas Range
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0292776837
• ISBN 13: 9780292776838
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: Reprint
• Condition: Very Good - Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

First published in 1953, this photographic record of the real life and work of cowboys remains a perennial favorite. Erwin E. Smith was the outstanding cowboy photographer of the West, and these eighty photographs were among those he chose for an exhibit of his best work at the 1936 Texas Centennial. The text by J. Evetts Haley, a noted historian of the range, skillfully complements Smith's visual record of a vanishing way of life.

Review

"Here is the book of western pictures I have been waiting for. It is a book of photographs by Erwin Smith, who took a camera to cow camps in the early years of this century, before the old life in the saddle was entirely dead and gone. He made the best pictures of that life I ever saw.... If you love the land, and the herds at grass, and the men who rode horses, this is your book." (Tom Lea)