Description: GOLD! SILVER! (maybe copper) and those seeking their fortunes against the backdrop of the American Civil War, relations between white settlers, Hispanics, and Native Americans, military exploits, salacious news accounts, greed—and one naturalized German with a camera.Rudolph d’Heureuse—a surveyor, cartographer, civil engineer, mining engineer, oenologist, inventor—who on one momentous journey photographed the Mojave Road in the Desert West from the shores of the Pacific Ocean to the banks of the Colorado River and the mines of Eldorado Canyon in today’s Nevada. His subjects included San Bernardino, Cajon Pass, and Los Angeles’s seaport, New San Pedro (Wilmington). He did it in 1863, many years before anyone else took another photo of this desert and its travelers, crossroads, forts, soldiers, and watering holes.Although a handful of his forty-one known photos of the Mojave Road have been used as supporting illustrations for books and articles, this volume is a monograph of the entire portfolio. Each image is accompanied by contemporary accounts of the various locations using newspaper articles, military reports, personal letters, and reminiscences. To view selected pages of this book, please visit FirstWaterDesign.com. If you are purchasing this book before attending an in-person presentation by Jeff Lapides, please choose "local pickup" and the paid book will be delivered to you at the event.
Price: 40 USD
Location: Sierra Madre, California
End Time: 2024-11-30T23:39:37.000Z
Shipping Cost: 10 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Format: Hardcover
Topic: Books
Vintage: No
Ex Libris: No
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Publication Year: 2018
Book Title: The Mojave Road in 1863
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Author: Edited by Jeffrey Lapides
Original Language: English
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association
Inscribed: No
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, Historical, History, Photography, Transportation, Travel, Western
Personalized: No
