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Illustrations of Historic Colorado
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by Christian J. Buys
Sales Rank: 2158732
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List Price: $29.95
$23.66
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 256 pages
Published by: Western Reflections Publishing CompanyEdition: 1st Edition November 4, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1890437425
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1890437428
Book Dimensions:
11.2 x 8.7 x 0.8 inches
Weighs: 2.6 pounds
Paul Reddin, Mesa State College history professor and author of Wild West Shows
"A stunning panorama of artists' images and written descriptions of Colorado done during the time before cameras became commonplace. Using periodicals of the age, Buys picked the artist rendering from the last half of the nineteenth century that shaped the popular perceptions of Colorado -- its inhabitants, its landscape, its economic potential, and its plant and animal life. General readers will savor this opportunity to see Colorado exactly as people did a hundred years ago, while historians will recognize the book as an important contribution to image formation about the West."
Book Description
Illustrations of Historic Colorado is a gorgeous and intriguing collection of over 250 nineteenth-century illustrations which create a stunning visual mosaic. Before the dominance of the unblinking eye of the camera, it was the artist who allowed the reader to experience the indigenous people, the spectacular scenery, intrepid mountain men, mineral-crazed prospectors and frenzied boom towns of Colorado. However their biases, prejudices and aspirations often appear in their creations.
Chris Buys, a social psychologist, has also included original narratives from nineteenth-century sources so as to let the artists and writers speak to you from the past. Buys combines visual and written history in this book and provides a fascinating perspective into nineteenth-century attitudes. Most of the illustrations and contemporary narratives will captivate you. A few will disturb you. All will teach you Colorado history in a way that you have never experienced.
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