American Frontier Life

Plot

1989, oversize oblong hardcover reprint edition (of a work first published in 1987. Portland House, NY. 202 pages. 127 plates in all (78 in color). Beautifully produced work of art, telling of how "news of the 19th century American West traveled East--and throughout the world--via paintings and popular prints." Here are influences such as George Catlin / Seth Eastman / Alfred Jacob Miller / Charles Deas / and other fine artists. Fans of the West and painting in general will appreciate these wonderful prints and the many essays on artists still remembered and others faded away to obscurity.