| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.3

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Book Review

Visions of the West: Art and Artifacts from the Private Collections of J. P. Bryan, Torch Energy Advisors Incorporated and Others. Edited by Melissa Baldridge. (Salt Lake City: Gibbs-Smith, 1999. xiv + 320 pp. Illustrations, index. $60.00.)

This handsome volume of color photographs of objects in a vast corporate collection of western materials could have been just another pretty, vanity book. That it is not is a tribute to the editor, Melissa Baldridge. Guided by the work of New West historians--Patricia Nelson Limerick wrote the introduction--Baldridge has broken her subject into smaller segments, most focused on members of the competing and successive peoples of the region, each group of pictures introduced by an expert in the field. The result is an informative look at the material culture of the American West, ranging from Lakota saddle blankets to a photo essay-in-progress on the festival life of northern Mexico, from Colt revolvers to a remarkable series of crayon renderings of black cowboys by John Willard Banks dating from the 1980s. . . .

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