Comanches in the New West, 1895-1908: Historic Photographs

by Stanley Noyes and Daniel J. Gelo

Novelist Larry McMurtry once received a photograph showing a demonstration of the then-new kerosene lamp to a mixed crowd of cowboys, soldiers, and Indians. To him, this image captured the transition from the Old West to the New West and led him to purchase the collection of glass plate negatives from which this print came. Sensing that the collection contained a fascinating record of cultural change and survival, McMurtry loaned it to the University...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292755686
• ISBN13: 9780292755680
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 10.3"