"The Frontier Years" - book for sale - SOLD

[Poverty Bill, SASS# 45790]

Howdy, have a nice book for sale.

 

"The Frontier Years"

L.A. Huffman, Photographer of the Plains

by Mark H. Brown and W.R. Felton

 

With 125 photographs from the famous L.A. Huffman originals.

 

"Before the railroad came, in the time just after the last war with the Sioux, L.A. Huffman came to Fort Keogh as post photographer.

He set up a studio in Miles City. He went into forbodden reservations among the Indians. He trekked through Montana territory, went on hunting expeditions for the bear, the buffalo, and the buck. He ranched to make ends meets. He explored deep into Yellowstone country, made pictures there of sights no white man had seen before; and famous warriors and scouts loafed in his studio and told stories of the days of Sitting Bull, Joseph, and Dull Knife and Little Wolf.

He learned the soldier's life, the life of the Indian, the economics of the buffalo slaughter, the wolfer's job. He photographed the Indian, the animal-hunter and the man-hunter, the racks of bones on the field where Custer stood, wagon tracks, tree burials, skinning the buffalo, cabin interiors, the winter, hostile Sioux villages, General Phil Sheridan, Calamity Jane, the roundup, the river in flood, the freighters hauling into town, the plains. Always the people were his favorites: he caught them well and saved them for another day.

And his pictures wanted background, so he kept letters, diaries, and notes of every description. His sketches have an intimacy and grass-roots authority, and the are equal in value, now, to the photographs they describe.

Huffman was a modest man in a new and wonderful country. The life of the man and the story of the country were almost one and the same. Both of them are here in The Frontier Years.

Froom 1200 negatives Mark H. Brown and W.R. Felton have culled 125 - pictures that Huffman called the best of his "gathering." From 600 volumes of choice Western Americana, and from many years devoted study and the tales of many old-timers, Mark H. Brown and W.R. Felton have distilled a text which does full justice to Huffman's magnificent photographs, which complements and embraces the superb notes left with his photographs."

 

copyright MCMLV

 

8 5/8" x 11 1/4" tall

272 pages

 

book is in very good + condition

Dust jacket is also good with some shelf wear

clear mylar jacket protector

 

$40.00 shipped to you (media rate) in the U.S.A.

 

SOLD

 

If you are interested or need more info. please post here on the wire.

 

Thanks for look'n.

[C. W. Knight # 47289L]

P Bill, ya better send that book this way. I will need your info again since my plan of organizing my "stuff" is better than my exacuition ! (and spellin' too) C.W.