Artists of the Old West - Tapa dura

Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 240 pages; Description: 240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cm. "A Chanticleer Press edition." Subjects: West (U.S.) -- In art. Artists, American -- West (U.S.) Native Americans -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial works. Contents: The artist as explorer and historian --In the wake of Lewis and Clark / Charlie Willson Peale and Charles B.J.F. de Saint-Memin --First artists in the great American desert / Titian Ramsay Peale and Samuel Seymour --Portraying Plains Indians for posterity / Charles Bird King and John Neagle --Young Artist on the Red River of the North / Peter Rindisbacher --Hunting Indians with a paintbrush / George Catlin --Master draftsman on the upper Missouri / Karl Bodmer --Among the mountain men / Alfred Jacob Miller --Among the fur traders at the mouth of the Yellowstone / Rudolph Friederich Kurz --Life on the Missouri frontier / George Caleb Bingham --In the California mines / Charles Nahl and Thomas A. Ayres --Brothers among the Southwest Indians / Edward M. Kern and Richard H. Kern --Artist and trail blazer in the Northern Rockies / Gustavus Sohon --Scenes of Rocky Mountain grandeur / Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Moran --Artists of the Plains Indian wars / Theodore R. Davis and Frederic Remington --A Montana cowboy portrays the passing of the Old West / Charles M. Russell.