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Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream

Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream


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For millions of Americans, Solomon D. Butcher's photographs epitomize the sod-house frontier. His late-nineteenth-century images from western Nebraska constitute the most extensive photographic record in existence of the generation that settled the Great Plains. The faces are unforgettable: jaunty bachelors and earnest husbands, Civil War veterans of both armies, spinster sodbusters and determined mothers, cowhands, farmhands, and former slaves-all in search of land of their own. Originally published in 1985, this first book devoted to Butcher and his photographs presents a unique visual chronicle of Great Plains settlement and established Butcher's place in frontier photography. Everyone interested in the plains pioneers or historical American photography will prize this splendid book.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction Photographs Afterword

About the Author :
John E. Carter (1950–2015) was a senior research historian at the Nebraska State Historical Society and is the coauthor, with Richard E. Jensen and R. Eli Paul, of Eyewitness at Wounded Knee, available in a Bison Books edition.   

Review :
"Readers and viewers seeking a rich and detailed visual record of the individual and collective process of settlement in central Nebraska will want to study, remember, and return to Butcher's photographs, so effectively displayed in this book."-Audrey Goodman, Western American Literature “A wonderfully revealing history.”-New Yorker “A compelling and singular view of American pioneers and pioneering spirit.”-American Photographer  “Splendid. . . . Butcher’s work reveals the stark and self-contained life of these people, and his sense of order and clarity transforms these pictures from mere records into icons of the American spirit.”-Choice “The prairie was Butcher’s stage, and his results ranged from the moving to the hilarious.”-Village Voice “There’s an often evocative, poignant sense of life in these photographs of Nebraskans. . . . The quality of the pictures and the earnestness of the people in them creates an almost hypnotic state.”-People magazine "This latest edition of Photographing the American Dream honors the late author's beliefs by bringing back Butcher's photographs to life for a new generation."-Erika Schwartz, Nebraska Life Magazine


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780803260382
  • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Bison Books
  • Height: 248 mm
  • No of Pages: 152
  • Sub Title: Photographing the American Dream
  • ISBN-10: 0803260385
  • Publisher Date: 01 Apr 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 152
  • Width: 260 mm


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