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Author: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Publisher: ISBN: Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Languages : en Pages : 240
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"Prior to the 1850s, the canyonlands of northern Arizona were known only to Native Americans and a few European explorers. In 1858, Lt. Joseph Ives of the U.S. Army led an expedition up the Colorado River to explore and map this mysterious region. Ives took along Prussian artist and naturalist Balduin Mollhausen to make sketches and watercolors of the topography, flora and fauna, and native peoples they encountered. Mollhausen's artworks are the first known depictions of the canyonlands." "To illustrate the published report of the expedition, Mollhausen created both simple pencil sketches and dramatic watercolors depicting the Colorado River landscape and its few inhabitants in the years just before the great migration to the Southwest. These works, the subject of an exhibition organized by the Amon Carter Museum, are reproduced in their original color for the first time. Considered both as works of art and as documents of a new, virtually unknown land, the watercolors are interwoven with journal entries by the explorers and a narrative of this journey of discovery. The resulting volume will interest not only historians and anthropologists, but anyone who has traveled the Colorado River or experienced the magnificence of Arizona's canyonlands."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art Publisher: ISBN: Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) Languages : en Pages : 240
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"Prior to the 1850s, the canyonlands of northern Arizona were known only to Native Americans and a few European explorers. In 1858, Lt. Joseph Ives of the U.S. Army led an expedition up the Colorado River to explore and map this mysterious region. Ives took along Prussian artist and naturalist Balduin Mollhausen to make sketches and watercolors of the topography, flora and fauna, and native peoples they encountered. Mollhausen's artworks are the first known depictions of the canyonlands." "To illustrate the published report of the expedition, Mollhausen created both simple pencil sketches and dramatic watercolors depicting the Colorado River landscape and its few inhabitants in the years just before the great migration to the Southwest. These works, the subject of an exhibition organized by the Amon Carter Museum, are reproduced in their original color for the first time. Considered both as works of art and as documents of a new, virtually unknown land, the watercolors are interwoven with journal entries by the explorers and a narrative of this journey of discovery. The resulting volume will interest not only historians and anthropologists, but anyone who has traveled the Colorado River or experienced the magnificence of Arizona's canyonlands."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author: Steven Rowan Publisher: University of Missouri Press ISBN: 0826272835 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 219
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In The Baron in the Grand Canyon, Steven Rowan presents the first comprehensive look at the life of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein, mapmaker, artist, explorer, and inventor. Utilizing new German and American sources, Rowan clarifies many mysteries about the life of this major artist and cartographer of the American West. This revealing account concentrates on Egloffstein’s activity in the American mountain West from 1853 to 1858. The early chapters cover his roots as a member of an imperial baronial family in Franconia, his service in the Prussian army, his arrival in the United States in 1846, and his links to his scandalous gothic-novelist cousin, Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein. Egloffstein’s work as a cartographer in St. Louis in the 1840s led to his participation in John C. Frémont’s final expedition to the West in 1853 and 1854. He left Frémont for Salt Lake City where he joined the Gunnison Expedition under the leadership of Edward Beckwith. During this time, Egloffstein produced his most outstanding panoramas and views of the expedition, which were published in Pacific Railroad Reports. Egloffstein also served along with Heinrich Balduin Möllhusen as one of the artists and as the chief cartographer of Joseph Christmas Ives’s expedition up the Colorado River. The two large maps produced by Egloffstein for the expedition report are regarded as classics of American art and cartography in the nineteenth century. While with the Ives expedition, Egloffstein performed his revolutionary experiments in printing photographic images. He developed a procedure for working from photographs of plaster models of terrain, and that led him to invent “heliography,” a method of creating printing plates directly from photographs. He later went on to launch a company to exploit his photographic printing process, which closed after only a few years of operation. Among the many images in this engaging narrative are photographs of the Egloffstein castle and of Egloffstein in 1865 and in his later years. Also include are illustrations that were published in the PRR, such as “View Showing the Formation of the Cañon of Grand River [today called the Gunnison River] / near the Mouth of Lake Fork with Indications of the Formidable Side Cañons” and Beckwith Map 1: “From the Valley of Green River to the Great Salt Lake.”
Author: David J. Weber Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300215045 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
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This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the first non-natives to describe them. Noted borderlands historians David J. Weber and William deBuys lead readers through centuries of political, cultural, and ecological change. The sites visited in this volume range from popular destinations within the National Park System—including Carlsbad Caverns, the Grand Canyon, and Mesa Verde—to the Spanish colonial towns of Santa Fe and Taos and the living Indian communities of Acoma, Zuni, and Taos. Lovers of the Southwest, residents and visitors alike, will delight in the authors’ skillful evocation of the region’s sweeping landscapes, its rich Hispanic and Indian heritage, and the sense of discovery that so enchanted its early explorers.
Author: Stephen J. Pyne Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101177586 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 249
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Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of intellectual and environmental history tells two tales of the Canyon: the discovery and exploration of the physical Canyon and the invention and evolution of the cultural Canyon--how we learned to endow it with mythic significance.Acclaimed historian Stephen Pyne examines the major shifts in Western attitudes toward nature, and recounts the achievements of explorers, geologists, artists, and writers, from John Wesley Powell to Wallace Stegner, and how they transformed the Canyon into a fixture of national identity. This groundbreaking book takes us on a completely original journey through the Canyon toward a new understanding of its niche in the American psyche, a journey that mirrors the making of the nation itself.
Author: John Blaustein Publisher: Studio ISBN: 9780670370108 Category : Boats and boating Languages : en Pages : 135
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Now updated and filled with Edward Abbey's dry humor, this classic journal in pictures and words captures the wonder of the Grand Canyon from the river level. Color photos throughout.
Author: Donald Worster Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199843708 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 688
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If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American maps and revealed the Grand Canyon to the world. Now comes the first biography of this towering figure in almost fifty years--a book that captures his life in all its heroism, idealism, and ambivalent, ambiguous humanity. In A River Running West, Donald Worster, one of our leading Western historians, tells the story of Powell's great adventures and describes his historical significance with compelling clarity and skill. Worster paints a vivid portrait of how this man emerged from the early nineteenth-century world of immigrants, fervent religion, and rough-and-tumble rural culture, and barely survived the Civil War battle at Shiloh. The heart of Worster's biography is Powell's epic journey down the Colorado in 1869, a tale of harrowing experiences, lethal accidents, and breathtaking discoveries. After years in the region collecting rocks and fossils and learning to speak the local Native American languages, Powell returned to Washington as an eloquent advocate for the West, one of America's first and most influential conservationists. But in the end, he fell victim to a clique of Western politicians who pushed for unfettered economic development, relegating the aging explorer to a quiet life of anthropological contemplation. John Wesley Powell embodied the energy, optimism, and westward impulse of the young United States. A River Running West is a gorgeously written, magisterial account of this great American explorer and environmental pioneer, a true story of undaunted courage in the American West.
Author: Laura Dassow Walls Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226871835 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 421
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Humboldt offered the world a vision of humans & nature as integrated halves of a single whole. He espoused the idea that while the univerise of nature exists apart from human purpose, its beauty & order are human achievements. Laura Dassow Walls traces the emergence of this philosophy to Humboldt's 1799 journey to America.
Author: William P. MacKinnon Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806156740 Category : Latter Day Saints Languages : en Pages : 705
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Drawing on author-editor William P. MacKinnon's half-century of research and a wealth of carefully selected new material, At Sword's Point presents the first full history of the conflict through the voices of participants-leaders, soldiers, and civilians from both sides. MacKinnon's lively narrative, continued in this second volume, links and explains these firsthand accounts to produce the most detailed, in-depth, and balanced view of the war to date.
Author: William P. MacKinnon Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806157259 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 725
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The Utah War of 1857–58, the unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon Utah Territory and the U.S. government, was the most extensive American military action between the Mexican and Civil wars. At Sword’s Point presents in two volumes the first in-depth narrative and documentary history of that extraordinary conflict. William P. MacKinnon offers a lively narrative linking firsthand accounts—most previously unknown—from soldiers and civilians on both sides. This first volume traces the war’s causes and preliminary events, including President Buchanan’s decision to replace Brigham Young as governor of Utah and restore federal authority through a large army expedition. Also examined are Young’s defensive-aggressive reactions, the onset of armed hostilities, and Thomas L. Kane’s departure at the end of 1857 for his now-famous mediating mission to Utah. MacKinnon provides a balanced, comprehensive account, based on a half century of research and a wealth of carefully selected new material. Women’s voices from both sides enrich this colorful story. At Sword’s Point presents the Utah War as a sprawling confrontation with regional and international as well as territorial impact. As a nonpartisan definitive work, it eclipses previous studies of this remarkably bloody turning point in western, military, and Mormon history.
Author: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
Author: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art
Author: Steven Rowan
Author: David J. Weber
Author: Stephen J. Pyne
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Author: John Blaustein
Author: Donald Worster
Author: Laura Dassow Walls
Author: William P. MacKinnon
Author: William P. MacKinnon