Glass Plates and Wagon Ruts - Images of Lisle Updike and William Pennington

Clark, H. Jackson (foreword by Duane A. Smith)

ISBN 10: 0870814958 / ISBN 13: 9780870814952

Published by University Press of Colorado, Niwor, Colorado, 1998

About this Item

Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is lightly bumped at spine tips and corners. 200 pages with 128 plates. 4to size.

Seller Inventory # 24784

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Glass Plates and Wagon Ruts - Images of Lisle Updike and William Pennington
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado, Niwor, Colorado
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870814958
• ISBN 13: 9780870814952
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 1.905W x 21.59H x 24.765D centimeters 1.905 centimeters width by 21.59 centimeters height by 24.765 centimeters depth
• Weight: 845 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Photography

About this title

Synopsis

Incorporates the entire corpus from 1905 to 1915 of two photographers who travelled the American Southwest capturing such images as Zuni Indians drilling turquoise; Jicarilla Apaches wearing eagle feather headdresses; cowboys in the territorial town of Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico; a Navajo medicine man, and other sights. Also included is an essay that chronicles the photographers' lives and a journal that details a woman's view of travelling the West during the same time period. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About the Author

H. Jackson Clark was a third-generation native of Durango, Colorado. A well-known Indian trader and expert on Navajo weaving, jewelry, and legends, he lectured extensively on the history of the southwest. He died in July of 1997, before he could see this project come to fruition.