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Show 16 Tooele Transcript, Thurs., January 29, rl ' 1991 Picture this scene. Bur- dened with a large camera, unwieldy tripod and fragile glass plates, a daring young man scrambles down a t cliff - determined to capture the beauty of a 1 CCCiff I 200-foo- plunging waterfall. The year was 1871; the place, a natural wonder- land of boiling pools, tumb- ling falls, rainbow springs and exploding geysers. In 1871 the area had seen by very few. ?? In his day, Jackson had West. lugs, drawings and prints leaders been a Civil War soldier, a IN T1IE years immedi- - for the Smithsonian Institu- - Chinese by Ink Mendensohn Smithsonian News Service ' tax Pictures Worth 3,000 Miles kj havb to tse wwan sjwesa. ? ' MAJOR APPLIANCE SERVICE IN TOOELE ON THURSDAYS NO MILEAGE CHARGE In ond Out Of Worronty on Most Monufocturers REASONABLE RATES "Roche DUBBED Jaune or "Y'ellow Rock" by French trappers and avoided as spirit- - haunted by Indians, this magical terrain with its snow- capped peaks and winding yellow canyons is known today as Yellowstone Na- tiooal Park. It was the first of America's national parks. Our intrepid photo- grapher played a signifi- low-ston- REFRIGERATORS FREEZERS MICRO WAVE OVENS WASHERS .Zges 1133 Richards St Salt lake Cty,Ut. 84101 picture is worth 10,000 wagon trains War, America was strug- Service. These works were words. In this case, the acroas the plains, an artist gling to lie free from the .gathered from a numlier of opening up of a continent . and an author, lie would terrible confinement of In- - tourers, including the U.S. was at stake. Their pictures River, which runs across become one of Americas ternal struggle The great Geological Survey, which would be worth 3.000 the northern California and most famous early Western transcontinental railroad had William llenry Jackson miles. Nevada border. His com- was completed in May As Jackson wrote in his a photographer when it photographers. panions used his wallet YOUNG Jackson cap- - 1869. The idea of wide- - was established in 1879. autobiography "Time Ex- - containing 1300 in $20 gold lands tured that Yellowstone wa open Western The exhibit, "Western posure "Hayden knew pieces as a weight for the terfall and, over the years, stretched the American Views and Eastern Vis- - that Congress would keep rope they threw him. The many hundreds of other imagination along its ions," documents the on with its annual appro- - boat stayed afloat. The tracks. virgin images of the Ameribeauty and grandeur of a priations exactly as king as can wilderness. His list of People had heard tales of lightly touched American the people were ready to West and salutes the pho- - foot the bill, and he was photographic conquests is a Western wonders from oxygen-pul- u virtual inventory of our early explorers tographers who preserved most scenic and adventurous travelers. those unique and unspoiled wonders. Some had seen paintings images. Old Faithful, Mammoth and drawings of these scenThese photographers Hot Springs, Yellowstones ic splendors. I low ever, were men who became Grand Canyon, the Grand exaggeration, the restless doing portrait work well-know- n Tetons, Yosemite Valley, the Mount of the Holy Cross in the Colorado Rockies and the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings were all recorded by his camera in the 1870s. Jackson was not alone in his efforts to bring incon-cant role in bringing Yel- - trovertible proof of the to the American glories of the Western public. His name was Wil- liam Henry Jackson, and he was the great great nephew of one Samuel Wilson, the model for America's best- known symliol, Uncle Sam. And a fitting nephew he -- 364-776- 1 been "bull whacker" driving ately following the Civil tjon Traveling Exhibition - Ionian's Ostroff notes. hers did not agreed with the proverb that a landscape to a doubting American public east of the public and the Congress, which had the power to finance Western exploration, were skeitical. "Photography remained the missing ingredient," Eugene Ostroff, curator of photography at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, says. "When it was introduced, it was a vital element in convincing Congress and the public of the richness of the new land." in studios. They wanted to work in the field. They had quite a Reid. Four major scientific and surveying expeditions were carried out during the years 9 into the present-da- y states of Arizona, California. Colorado, the Dako1867-187- determined to make them keep on wanting to, In order to make them keep on wanting to. Jack- cliff son climbed a 200-fo"four or five times in a single day to get one set of pictures of that Yellowstone waterfall. He wanted a view of the falls from the gorge below but could nut get his cumliersome portable darkroom down into the canyon. So he set up his camera at the bottom and tas, Montana, Nebraska, traveled back and forth New Mexico, Utah and between the two. THERE were gains, and Clarence King. there were losses. Timothy Ferdinand Hayden and O'Sullivan, who had been Mississippi. A handful of other photographers, inJohn Wesley Powell, three with Mathew Brady, the fa- OSTROFF conceived kcenly intelligent and pub-- mous Civil War photo-licl- y eluding Carleton Watkins and Timothy OSullivan, and organized an exhibition conscious men, each grapher, once had a piece would mesmerize this of 180 early photographs survey had its own photo- - of bad luck, or rather, 15 country with views of the and accompanying paint- - grapher. The expedition pieces of had luck. Wyoming. LED BY Wfat iff yum sa? hundreds of pictures of a pristine Yosemite Valley, saw years of work go up in smoke when many of his negat i vw were dest royed in the 1906 earthquake and ardship. They wanted to encourage interest in the West. Many wanted totake pictures that would sell." And sell they did, by the hundreds of thousands, These stereo views provid- ed the Western landscape ph otographer his main legacy of the photographs of men like Watkins, O'Sullivan and Jackson, THOSE first photos of Yellowstone taken by Jack-so- n had quite an impact. ON THE other hand, a No one in the U.S. Conphotographer some! iinex gress paid much attention Kangot lucky. Stanley J. Mor- to a bill introduced by PomerSamuel Senator sas row a chemicals failed to arrive at Fort Abraham oy to set aside the YellowLincoln in time to photo- stone as a national park. graph a major Indian war. That is, until he reintroHe missed Custer's Last duced it with the announcement: "There are Stand. If a photographer somephotographs of the valley times got lucky, he seldom and the curiosities, which Presumgot rich. Jackson's top sal- Senators can see. ary after 10 years with fed- ably, they saw Jackson's erally sponsored surveys pictures, for they passed was just $175 a month. For the bill without dissent. On men like Jackson, artistry March I, 1872, President and adventure, not cash, Grant signed the lull, and were the coin of the realm. Americans had their first They did not, however, national park. On his 90th birthday in tum a blind eye to economic opportunity. For these 1933, Jackson was given a new camera. It weighed men of pictures, opportunone pound had two approximately eyes. literally ity inch One of Victorian America's and used a a which from most popular entertainnegative ments was looking at ster- huge enlargement could be eographs, or double photo- made. He felt the weight of graphs. When seen through it in his hand and mused, viewer called This little thing makes a a double-len- s a stereoscope, the side-by- sport of our laltors.' It was not in vain that side images produced a picture, these men labored. 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