| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Book Review

Print the Legend: Photography and the American West. By Martha A. Sandweiss. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. xiii + 402 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $25.00, paper.)

This work deftly interweaves three important analytical themes in the history of western photography in the nineteenth-century. First, through its close study of the connection between prominent cultural narratives about the American West and photographs of it, Print the Legend successfully makes the case that photographs and photographers played a central role in the creation of the regional West. Second, the book ties western photographs and photographers of western subjects to broader trends in nineteenth-century visual culture. Third, the author consistently examines how photographs simultaneously work as historical artifacts, source material, and as a window on the cultural intentions of those who took the photos as well as those who served as their subjects.

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