This book presents the closing days of America’s untamed Westas lived and recorded through the lens of three of the best-knownphotographers of the era: David Francis Barry, John C.H. Grabill, and L.A.Huffman. These men knew Custer and the 7th Cavalry, as well as theleaders of the Native people who fought valiantly to preserve their landsand their historic way of life. These photographers knew the cowboys andranchers and even the leaders of the Mexican Revolution. Through the publication of their work, the photographs these mentook gave people from coast to coast a realistic and sometimes spectacularimage of what was happening on the frontier as the relentless waves ofimmigrants swept westward in search of land, gold, and new lives.You may know the general history of these events, but thesephotographers presented visual evidence of their times that has beenpreserved for more than a century. Paul Jensen has gathered both thestories of their lives and the historic photos of their times to serve up asavory taste of the Wild West. The world’s awareness of the American West was heavily shaped bygreat 19th-century photographers who captured vistas, characters, andthe dramas of settlement and conquest. Paul Jensen, a cowboy and 21stcentury historian of the frontier, vividly conveys the world in which thesephotographers operated, and the lasting impact of their version of the peopleand places of the frontier.—James Fallows, National Correspondent for theAtlantic Monthly and nationally...