California Exposures: Envisioning Myth and History

by Richard White and Jesse Amble White

Book Overview

"This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." This indelible quote from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance applies especially well to California, where legend has so thoroughly become fact that it is visible in everyday landscapes. Our foremost historian of the West, Richard White, never content to "print the legend," collaborates here with his son, a talented photographer, in excavating the layers of legend built into...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393243060
• ISBN13: 9780393243062
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.3" x 10.4"