Fairbanks, Jonathan et al. — Frontier America: The Far West

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1975. Softcover. Silver wraps. 233 pp. 47 color, 148 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with 1975 exhibitions. Includes essays by Jonathan L. Fairbanks (Introduction; Shelter on the Frontier: Adobe Housing in Nineteenth Century Utah), Roland F. Dickey (American Indians Before European Contact; The Spanish Southwest), William H. Truettner (Natural History and the Natural Man: Art and Science in the West), John C. Ewers (The American West as a Theater of Conflict), Frederick J. Dockstader (The Impact of Trade Goods on Native American Arts), Gilian S. Wohlauer (Americans on the Land), and Elisabeth Sussman (Furniture on the Frontier). Checklist of the exhibition, selected bibliography. A far-reaching exhibition of the crafts, arts and artifacts of the men and women who struggled with nature in the vast area between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean during the settlement of that area. Terrific illustrations. Published to accompany the exhibition held in Boston, MA: MFA, Jan. 23 to Mar. 16, 1975, four other locations. VG, slight wear to edges .