Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845-1924

by Frank H. Goodyear III

Book Overview

Their faces look out across a chasm of time. Stern and often stiff, they wear the high collars and hoop skirts, buckskins and ceremonial feathers of another era. The names of some are familiar--Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Sitting Bull, Annie Oakley. The names of others may be less well known, but they played a significant role in re-creating the American West. These are all people of the West, and their portraits give us a unique glimpse into a lost...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806140828
• ISBN13: 9780806140827
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 3.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.4" x 12.4"