skopia
Avedon spent five years photographing drifters, miners, waitresses, and slaughterhouse workers against plain white paper. Printed larger than life, the faces leave nothing to hide behind and no cowboy myth standing.
Twenty-three and fresh from Harvard, Parkman rode onto the 1846 prairie and spent three weeks hunting buffalo with an Oglala Sioux band. He got the West down before the railroads reached it.
From his wheelchair a historian rebuilds his grandmother's life from her letters: a New York illustrator who followed a mining engineer west. Stegner's Pulitzer novel holds a region in one marriage.