Frontier Photographers Reveal Our Past

From Daguerreotype views, through collodion, wet and dry, stereographs, to the film that I still use and cherish, Rachel McLean Sailor in Meaningful Places: Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West introduces some heretofore obscure pioneering workers in the relatively short history of photography in the American West. Thomas Easterly held forth in burgeoning St. Louis, Missouri, documenting the “removal” of the enormous mound of the prehistoric Mississippian Cultu