In On the Road Again, William Wyckoff explores Montana's changing
physical and cultural landscape by pairing photographs taken by
state highway engineers in the 1920s and 1930s with photographs
taken at the same sites today. The older photographs, preserved in
the archives of the Montana Historical Society, were intended to
document the expenditure of federal highway funds. Because it is
nearly impossible to photograph a road without also photographing
the landscape through which that road passes, these images contain
a wealth of information about the state's environment during the
early decades of the twentieth century. To highlight landscape
changes -- and continuities -- over more than eighty years, Wyckoff
chose fifty-eight documented locations and traveled to each to
photograph the exact same view. The pairs of old and new photos and
accompanying interpretive essays presented here tell a vivid story
of physical, cultural, and economic change. Wyckoff has grouped his
selections to cover a fairly even mix of views from the eastern and
western parts of the state, including a wide assortment of land use
settings and rural and urban landscapes. The photo pairs are
organized in thirteen "visual themes," such as forested areas, open
spaces, and sacred spaces, which parallel landscape change across
the entire American West. A close, thoughtful look at these
photographs reveals how crops, fences, trees, and houses shape the
everyday landscape, both in the first quarter of the twentieth
century and in the present. The photographs offer an intimate view
into Montana, into how Montana has changed in the past eighty years
and how it may continue to change in the twenty-first century. This
is a book that will captivate readers who have, or hope to have, a
tie to the Montana countryside, whether as resident or visitor.
Regional and agricultural historians, geographers and geologists,
and rural and urban planners will all find it fascinating.
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