| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.4

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Book Review

Print the Legend: Photography and the American West. By Martha A. Sandweiss. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xiv, 402 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-300-09522-8.)

Martha A. Sandweiss's Print the Legend is a magnificent work and a definitive synthesis of the nineteenth-century West's photographic visual culture. The book treats several intertwined histories. One thread follows the history of photography as a medium from the daguerreotype era of the 1840s, through the bulky glass-plate era beginning in the late 1850s, to the 1890s, when roll film made "kodakery" a national pastime. Another thread weaves the history of the trans-Mississippi West, beginning with the Mexican-American War, to the great western surveys and the invention of Native Americans as a "vanishing race." In each of seven tightly argued chapters, Sandweiss looks at public photographs in order to map the cultural work those images performed in the context of their original production and circulation.

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