West Point Points West

by Denver Art Museum

To twenty-first-century observers, artistic training may seem an unnecessary frill in a soldier's education. But during the nineteenth and even the twentieth centuries, military officers were expected to sketch battlefields and design fortifications. Officers of the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, which organized exploring expeditions, were asked to return with the information needed to map the expanding American West. Thus, the Military Academy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806199687
• ISBN13: 9780806199689
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Denver Art Museum
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 9.0" x 11.9"