The first major collection of master photographer John Ward's gorgeously detailed black-and-white images of the American West

From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents a

A wide-ranging exploration of human interactions with the land over thousands of years, as well as a model for teaching art and design in the field.

"The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American comm

Most treatments of slavery, politics, and expansion in the early American republic focus narrowly on congressional debates and the inaction of elite "founding f