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Yellowstone to Yosemite: Early Adventures in the Mountain West : Classic Adventure-Travel Writing of the Early 1870's

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This book is a collection of pencil drawings by Thomas Moran, the man who first brought images of John Wesley Powell's famous 1869 trip down the Colorado River to the American public.
Each group of photos is accompanied by an article written by a contemporary of Moran's, and all are historically valuable, and often interesting.
The book contains sections on the Mountain West, Yellowstone, the Rocky Mountains, the Colorado River, the Sierras, and Yosemite.
The drawing of the now-lost Glen Canyon is my very favorite image of that place, and is completely unlike any other extant drawing or photograph: it's dark and gloomy, frightening even, nothing like the colorful place depicted in so many other accounts. For that drawing alone, and for the drawings of the Grand Canyon, this book is well worth the price.
It's weird though, this book is a paperback, and yet it comes with a dust jacket....