Perpetual Mirage : Photographic Narratives of the Desert West.

TABLE OF CONTENTS :
1. MAY CASTLEBERRY: Introduction ;
2. MARTHA A. SANDWEISS: Dry Light: Photographic Books and the Arid West ;
= SURVEYING AN UNFAMILIAR LAND, 1840-1880 : =
3. RON TYLER: Prints vs. Photographs, 1840-1860 ;
4. SUSAN DANLY: Photography, Railroads, and Natural Resources in the Arid West Photographs by Alexander Gardner and A.J. Russell ;
5. WILLIAM H. GOETZMANN: Desolation, Thy Name Is the Great Basin: Clarence King's 40th Parallel Geological Explorations ;
6. WILLIAM KITTREDGE: We Are What We See: Photography and the Wheeler Survey Party ;
= DISCOVERING A HUMAN PAST, INVENTING A SCENIC WEST, 1880-193 : =
7. EVAN S. CONNELL: Mesa Verde ;
8. WILLIAM N. GOETZMANN: The Arcadian Landscapes of Edward S. Curtis ;
9. KEVIN STARR: Mesa, Canon and Pueblo by Charles Fletcher Lummis ;
10. PATRICIA NELSON LIMERICK AND SHARYN WILEY YEOMAN: A Pleasant Fellow in a Not So Pleasant Place: J. Smeaton Chase and His Trail of Good Nature ;
= MODERNIST VISIONS AND TRADITIONAL VOICES, 1930-1960 : =
11. ANNE HAMMOND: Taos Pueblo ;
12. PETER E. PALMQUIST: Waterless Mountain ;
13. SUSAN DANLY: Charis Wilson and Edward Weston: California and the West ;
14. ROBERT COLES: An American Exodus as a Documentary Milestone ;
15. RINA SWENTZELL: The Pueblos ;
16. ANNE HAMMOND: The Land of Little Rain ;
17. JOHN R. CHÁVEZ: Gilpin's Rio Grande as Seen by Another ;
18. MARC REISNER: The Place No One Knew ;
= TRANSFORMATION AND REASSESSMENT, 1960-1996 : =
19. LISA PHILLIPS: Learning from Las Vegas: Mirage of Mirages ;
20. ADAM D. WEINBERG: From the Missouri West ;
21. ROBERT A. SOBIESZEK: Terminal Documents: The Early Desert of Lewis Baltz ;
22. TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS: Richard Misrach's Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West ;
23. THOMAS W. SOUTHALL: Second View. A Search for the West that Exists Only in Photographs ;
24. Catalogue of Works WITH BIOGRAPHIES BY JULIE MELLBY ;
Bibliography.