Frontier Photographer, Stanley J. Morrow’s Dakota Years by Hurt, Wesley R. and William E. Lass - 1956

University Of South Dakota and University Of Nebraska Press, South Dakota, 1956; First Edition; 8vo 135 pages; photo illustrated; gilt titles and decorations; map end papers. Examination of the career and work of 19th century Dakota Territory frontier photographer Stanley J. Morrow, who learned the rudiments of his profession from Matthew Brady while stationed at Point Lookout Prison in Maryland as a member of the Union Army Relief Corps in 1864. After discharge from the Army that same year, Morrow married, and in 1868 journeyed with his new wife to Yankton, South Dakota where he spent the next fifteen years chronicling the land and peoples of the plains from Sioux City to Helena, Montana Territory, using his glass plate view and stereoscopic cameras. Authoritatively written by Wesley R. Hurt, Director of the W. H. Over Museum and Associate Professor Of Anthropology at the University of South Dakota, and William E. Lass, historian at the University of Wisconsin. Illustrated with 100 photographs taken from the Morrow Collection at the W. H. Over Museum, which include a sizable number of uncommon Indian portraits. Four-page bibliography at the back. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good dust jacket that has an aged clear tape reinforcement on the verso of the top edge of the rear panel and a small 1" of the same at top front of the spine panel.