LEADER 04915cam 2200481 i 4500001 on1019843481 003 OCoLC 005 20190424144135.0 008 171205s2018 cauab b 001 0beng c 010 2017058334 020 9780520287983 |qhardcover ; |qalkaline paper 020 0520287983 |qhardcover ; |qalkaline paper 035 (Sirsi) 40028835187 035 40028835187 035 (OCoLC)1019843481 040 CU-S/DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dBDX |dYDX |dERASA |dBUF |dZLM |dUKMGB |dNYP |dCHVBK |dOCLCO |dWLU |dYDX |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 n-usp-- 050 00 TR140.W376 |bG74 2018 082 00 770.92 |223 100 1 Green, Tyler, |d1974- |eauthor. |=^A1373293 245 10 Carleton Watkins : |bmaking the West American / |cTyler Green. 264 1 Oakland, California : |bUniversity of California Press, |c[2018] 300 xvii, 574 pages : |billustrations (some color), map ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-538) and index. 505 0 Sunrise in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains -- Arriving in California -- Creating Western culture at Black Point -- Secession or union? -- To Yosemite in wartime -- Sharing Yosemite -- Exhibiting Yosemite in wartime -- Expanding the Western landscape -- The birth of the nature park idea -- Assisting American science -- To Oregon (for industry) -- Volcanic landscapes -- Basking in achievement, building a business -- Celebrating Gilded Age wealth -- Taking Shasta, discovering glaciers -- The boom years -- San Francisco's borasca -- The comeback -- Creating semi-tropical California -- Showing California its history -- Enter William H. Lawrence -- Rebuilding a business -- Mapping from the mountaintops -- Becoming agricultural -- Traveling the West (again) -- The new industrial agriculture near Bakersfield, California -- The last great picture -- The long, slow end. 520 "Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) is widely considered the greatest American photographer of the nineteenth century and arguably the most influential artist of his era. He is best known for his pictures of Yosemite Valley and the nearby Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. Watkins made his first trip to Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove in 1861 just as the Civil War was beginning. His photographs of Yosemite were exhibited in New York for the first time in 1862, as news of the Union's disastrous defeat at Fredericksburg was landing in newspapers and while the Matthew Brady Studio's horrific photographs of Antietam were on view. Watkins's work tied the West to Northern cultural traditions and played a key role in pledging the once-wavering West to Union. Motivated by Watkins's pictures, Congress would pass legislation, later signed by Abraham Lincoln, that preserved Yosemite as the prototypical "national park," the first such act of landscape preservation in the world. Carleton Watkins: Making the West American includes the first history of the birth of the national park concept since pioneering environmental historian Hans Huth's landmark 1948 "Yosemite: The Story of an Idea." Watkins's photographs helped shape America's idea of the West, and helped make the West a full participant in the nation. His pictures of California, Oregon, and Nevada, as well as modern-day Washington, Utah, and Arizona, not only introduced entire landscapes to America but were important to the development of American business, finance, agriculture, government policy, and science. Watkins's clients, customers, and friends were a veritable "who's who" of America's Gilded Age, and his connections with notable figures such as Collis P. Huntington, John and Jessie Benton Frémont, Eadweard Muybridge, Frederick Billings, John Muir, Albert Bierstadt, and Asa Gray reveal how the Gilded Age helped make today's America."-- Publisher's description. 600 10 Watkins, Carleton E., |d1829-1916. |=^A582327 600 17 Watkins, Carleton E., |d1829-1916. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00048764 |?UNAUTHORIZED 600 17 Watkins, Carleton E., |d1829-1916. |2gnd |0(DE-588)119136406 |?UNAUTHORIZED 650 0 Landscape photographers |zWest (U.S.) |y19th century. |=^A1065225 650 7 Landscape photographers. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01738262 651 7 United States, West. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01243255 |?UNAUTHORIZED 648 7 1800-1899 |2fast 776 08 |iOnline version:Green, Tyler, 1974- |tCarleton Watkins. |dOakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] |z9780520963023 |w(DLC) 2017060907 949 |i30372016663640 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s34.95 |tJoyner48 |uJAPP |zUSD 596 1 998 5045671