{"product_id":"print-the-legend-photography-and-the-american-west-9780300095227","title":"Print the Legend: Photography and the American West","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrint the Legend: Photography and the American West\u003c\/strong\u003e by Sandweiss, Martha A.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780300095227.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the intertwined stories of photography and the American West-a new medium and a new place that came of age together in the nineteenth century. The story begins just a few years after the invention of the daguerreotype in 1839, as pioneering photographers followed American troops into the Mexican-American War. Taking advantage of rapidly developing technology, photographers soon set out across the overland trails, recorded the shifting fortunes of Californias goldseekers, pictured native peoples, and documented the spectacular topography of the American West. The new medium of photography made vivid a landscape few Americans had seen for themselves.\nResurrecting scores of little-known images of the nineteenth-century American West, Print the Legend offers engaging tales of ambitious photographic adventurers, missing photographs, and misinterpreted images. Chronicling both the history of a place and the history of a medium, this book portrays how Americans first came to understand western photographs and, consequently, to envision their expanding nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44952080089141,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300095228","price":118.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300095227_8c8728d2-7564-4213-8701-e63a6e408341.jpg?v=1781375140","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/print-the-legend-photography-and-the-american-west-9780300095227","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}