| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.2

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Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840–1865. By Peter E. Palmquist and Thomas R. Kailbourn. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. xxi + 679 pp. Illustrations, appendices, bibliography. $125.)

This most impressive volume sets a new standard for reference books on early western photography. Despite their power to preserve literal images of the past, early photographs and their creators have received surprisingly little study by historians. Now Peter Palmquist and Thomas Kailbourn have used their fifty combined years of research experience to create a work that will greatly enhance our knowledge of those men and women who went to the western frontier and took its picture. 1

Palmquist and Kailbourn take a wide-angle view both of photographers and of the West. Included—from Central America to Alaska and the Continental Divide to Hawaii—are not only the men and women who operated the cameras, but others they relied upon for supplies and support, as well as the spread of their art and the enhancement of their businesses. The authors start off with a richly illustrated seventy-one-page introduction that could stand by itself as a history of early photography in the West. . . .

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