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Throughout the world, the American West has defined the character
of the United States of America as no other region in America ever
could. The combination of awe-inspiring topography and landscapes,
from the 100th meridian to the Pacific Coast, along with the
integration of Indian and Hispanic cultures into the American
fabric of life have long inspired citizens of the world to travel
to and explore the vast lands that define the American West, from
the middle of the nineteenth century to the present
time.Photography helped to open up the West after the American
Civil War by sharing views of nature unparalleled in any other
place on Earth. And photography helped to create the beginning of a
national park system that may well go down in history as America's
greatest democratic ideal. It is no wonder that public lands have
come to dominate the American West, from national parks to national
grasslands and wildlife refuges, from national forests to national
monuments and historical sites, from wild and scenic rivers to
other sanctuaries of wilderness.Willy Sutton has spent much of the
past thirty years getting out of his truck and into the landscape,
taking his camera to places of natural wonder both well known and
obscure. He has assembled one of the great photographic bodies of
work dealing with the public lands of the American West, providing
a glimpse of what these landscapes looked like before they were
designated as national treasures. But, of course, because of their
preservation, they are available to all citizens of the world
today.Whether one has lived in or visited the West for an entire
lifetime, or whether one is coming to the West for the very first
time, all readers of this book will find in Sutton's photographs a
magisterial guide to what makes the West so unique, so special. As
essayists Toby Jurovics and Susan B. Moldenhauer make plain, Willy
Sutton's photographs, as represented in this book, will long be
held in esteem for the pioneering work they embody, even in this
contemporary age dominated by urban development, social and
economic inequality, and climate change. "At Home in the West: The
Lure of Public Land " is a book for the ages.
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