William Henry Jackson's Lens - McNeese, Tim
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William Henry Jackson was an explorer, photographer, and artist. He is also one of those most often overlooked figures of the American West. His larger claim to fame involves his repeated forays into the western lands of nineteenth-century America as a photographer. Jackson's life spanned multiple incarnations of the American West. Jackson's story was long and his life full, as he lived to the enviable age of 99. This biography presents the good, bad, and ugly of Jackson's life, both personal and professional, through the use primary source materials, including Jackson's autobiographies, letters, and government reports on the Hayden Surveys.…mehr

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William Henry Jackson was an explorer, photographer, and artist. He is also one of those most often overlooked figures of the American West. His larger claim to fame involves his repeated forays into the western lands of nineteenth-century America as a photographer. Jackson's life spanned multiple incarnations of the American West. Jackson's story was long and his life full, as he lived to the enviable age of 99. This biography presents the good, bad, and ugly of Jackson's life, both personal and professional, through the use primary source materials, including Jackson's autobiographies, letters, and government reports on the Hayden Surveys.
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Autorenporträt
Tim McNeese, PhD, is a professor of history at York College in Nebraska, where he has taught for more than 25 years. Over the past 30 years, Dr. McNeese has published more than 120 titles on subjects ranging from the building of the Great Wall of China to 19th Century stagecoaches for Macmillan, Scholastic, Morgan Reynolds, Lucent, Chelsea House, Enslow, Blandford, and others. In addition to Dr. McNeese's publications, he also has film credits to his name. In 2005, he was the consulting historian for a History Channel program titled Risk Takers, History Makers: John Wesley Powell and the Grand Canyon. He has also made multiple appearances on the American Heroes Channel series, America: Facts vs. Fiction; worked on a documentary on the life of General Pershing (Blackjack Pershing: Love and War); and in 2019 he appeared as an on-screen historian for the Discovery CuriosityStream series "American Icons." He lives in York, Nebraska.