Portland House, New York [published date: 1989] Hardcover, faux leather,  Burnt Orange cover with gilt lettering on spine.This book has a very small nick taken out of the top edge of the cover that shows the inner board, very light edgewear. The dust jacket has light edgewear and a couple of small chips in the edge where the board is damaged there is one small tear at the top of the spine corner. All else is clean and bright and in VERY GOOD condition.

 Produced in conjunction with the exhibition, American Frontier Life: Early Western Painting and Prints organized by the Amon Carter Museum and the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, and held at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming, June 12-September 10, 1987. From the Introduction: "Although not necessarily bent on appealing to European audiences today, this book provides a remarkable opportunity to explore mid-nineteenth-century American painting as it reflects the richness of those frontier themes touted as so "essentially American." Assembled here is a pictorial anthology of western life that mirrors not only the people and activites of this nation"s frontier from about 1835 to 1860, but also reviews those images within the context of American aesthetic tradition of the time." 202pp.