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Book Review
William Henry Jackson, An Intimate Portrait: The Elwood P. Bonney Journal. Edited by Lloyd W. Gundy. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2000. vix + 163 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $24.95, cloth; $12.95, paper.)
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Elwood Bonney, an amateur historian and railroad executive, struck a fast friendship with photographer and painter William Henry Jackson after they met at New York's Explorers Club in 1932. Bonney, a meticulous journalist, recorded nearly every detail of the relationship until Jackson's death at age ninety-nine in 1942. |
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William Henry Jackson, An Intimate Portrait: The Elwood P. Bonney Journal, edited by Lloyd W. Gundy, takes Jackson the western figure and places him in the world of 1930s New York City. In his nineties, Jackson remains an active painter, working as a WPA-sponsored artist for the National Park Service, lecturing and annually touring the West for the Oregon Trail Memorial Association. |
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