The Taming of the West: A Photographic Perspective.

Henry Regnery, 1974.  First edition, first printing. 232 pages, large hardcover (10.75 X 13.75 in.), in black cloth profusely illustrated with remarkable black and white photographs. By David R. Phillips and Robert A. Weinstein. Large quarto, very good with very good protected price-clipped dust jacket.  Despite title, includes a few photos of the Eastern United States, including New York.  Photographers include E.E. Henry, Harrison Putney, Horace Stevenson, Joseph E. Smith, Silas and Lewis Melander, N.A. Forsyth, B.W. Kilburn, Capelin and Melander, Silas Melander, Edwin Rew, Burke & Koretke, et al.