Grand Canyon of Arizona Being a Book of Words From Many Pens About the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River in Arizona. cat1
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe

Chicago: The Passinger Department of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and W. J. Black, 1906. First Impression. VG Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Demy table, [23.75cm/9.5inches], full pictorial cloth, sans dust jacket, -as issued-, pp. 129. Illustrated with b-w halftone plates, schematics, a colour map of the Grand Canyon, &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The cover illustration of the Hotel El Tovar by Louis Benton Akin was taken from a large, 22 x 40 inch, chromolithograph published by W. J. Black, American Lithographic Co., 1906. Around 1903, Akin relocated to the Hopi Reservation in Northern Arizona. He lived with the Hopi for a few years and painted many aspects of their daily life. By 1905 he was showing his works in New York City, Philadelphia, and elsewhere. In the same year, his talent was discovered by Arizona Railways that funded him to portrait a sketch on Indians to highlight significance of the region as a tourist destination. He toured the area to paint his famed paintings Hopi and other life-depicting portraits. His artwork depicting the life of Indians were admiringly adopted by the Railways advertisement printouts. For the rest of his life, Akin alternated time between New York City and Arizona, with a few trips to North American wilderness areas. Akin became known for numerous landscapes of the Grand Canyon, but also painted the Canadian Rockies and Glacier National Park.