Item #2666
308 pp.; 4to; decorative light brown cloth, d.j.; map endpapers; b&w photographs throughout. New York: Scribners, 1947. First Edition. Excellent pictorial record of Jackson's life and work photographing the emerging western frontier, prepared by his son, C. S. Jackson. A large volume of material gathered from many sources throughout the country, including the National Park Service, the Smithsonian, the Denver Public Library. Arranged in chronological order with a running text based on Jackson's diaries and notebooks.
Untrained as an artist, Jackson began making pencil sketches in notebooks during his first trip west as a bullwhacker with an 1866 wagon train. Four years later he was employed as a photographer on the Hayden geological survey of the Yellowstone region. Eventually settling in Denver, Jackson opened a studio, and spent the ensuing years photographing and painting many regions of the West. He left a rich and detailed visual record ranging from the lives of aboriginal peoples to the vistas of Yellowstone and the building of the Union Pacific Railroad. Jacket price-clipped, with many chips and tears; very good or better book in fair jacket.
