The Pioneer Photographer: Rocky Mountain Adventures with a Camera
- ISBN-10
- 1567353428
- ISBN-13
- 9781567353426
- Category
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Pages
- 314
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-01-01
- Publisher
- Pikes Peak Library District
- Authors
- William Henry Jackson, Howard Roscoe Driggs
Description
The Pioneer Photographer is the story of William Henry Jackson¿s love for the outdoors and of his adventurous life photographing the Rocky Mountain West during the late 1860s and 1870s. His meticulous descriptions of the rugged and treacherous landscapes, and the efforts required for capturing the images on glass plates, edify the reader about the enormous challenges presented by early photographic technology.
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