American frontier Life-Early Western painting and prints.pdf

Portland House / 1989 / Pdf / English / ISBN 10 0517687860 / 202 pages / 38.6 MB

American Frontier Life shows how news of the nineenth-century American West traveled east—and throughout the world—via paintings and popular rints. Here is the first extensive survey of the potent visual sources that shaped the popular image of the west between 1830 and i860, the crucial period of greatest western migration.