Book reviews
Subject(s): Artists--Biography, Ashcan school of art, Books and reading, Bourns, Phillips, Brownell, Blaine A., Casagrande, Louis B., Colburn, David R., Colorado--Mesa Verde National Park, Documentary photography, Dorsey, George A. (George Amos), 1868-1931, Grenier, Judson, Heim, Keith M., Hicks, John D., 1890-1972, History--Book reviews, Hoar, George Frisbie, 1826-1904, Hopi dance, Hopi Indians, Kodak camera, Matteson, Sumner W., 1867-1920, Milwaukee Public Museum, Mowry, George E. (George Edwin), 1909-1984, Photography--Moral and ethical aspects, Platt, Orville Hitchcock, 1827-1905, Pozzetta, George E., Progressivism (United States politics), Reed, John, 1887-1920, Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909, Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919, Rosenstone, Robert A., Samuels, Harold, Samuels, Peggy, Science Museum of Minnesota, Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968, Sloan, John, 1871-1951, Smith, Alfred Emanuel, 1873-1944, Smith, Edwina C., Speranza, Gino C., 1872-1927, Vitz, Robert C., 1938-, Wister, Owen, 1860-1938
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The “Book Reviews” section features three essays. In “‘The Negatives Are the Score the Prints Are the Performance,” Chris Foster examines Side Trips: The Photography of Sumner W. Matteson, 1898-1908. Foster looks at the development of photography equipment, especially Kodak cameras, notes the various locations in the American West, Mexico, and Cuba that Matteson documented, and pays particular attention to Matteson’s photographs of Native Americans and their culture. A photograph of a buffalo, a copy of which Matteson sent to President Theodore Roosevelt, accompanies the review and is the only illustration in the section.
In “A Tribute to George E. Mowry,” John Robert Greene reviews Reform and the Reformer in the Progressive Era.” Greene examines each of the essays in this tribute to George E. Mowry, a historian of the Progressive age, and finds a number of them disappointing, but he reserves special praise for an essay that provides an overview of Mowry’s career and for the transcript of an interview with Mowry from 1980.
John A. Gable reviews Peggy and Harold Samuels’s Frederic Remington: A Biography in “Remington’s West.” Gable notes the importance of Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister to forming Americans’ view of the frontier West, and he catalogs many of Remington’s illustrations, paintings, and sculptures, some of which belonged to Roosevelt. Gable pushes back against some of the criticism that the Samuels compile against Remington, and he notes Roosevelt’s admiration for the artist.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
Creation Date
1984
Creator(s)
Foster, Chris; Greene, John Robert, 1955-; Gable, John A.
Language
English
Period
Theodore Roosevelt and Public Memory (1919-present)
Page Count
5
Production Method
Record Type
Image
Resource Type
Rights
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Citation
Cite this Record
Chicago:
Book reviews. [1984]. Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal.
https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o307506. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Foster, Chris; Greene, John Robert, 1955-; Gable, John A.. Book reviews. [1984]. Image.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. February 5, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o307506.
APA:
Foster, Chris; Greene, John Robert, 1955-; Gable, John A.., [1984]. Book reviews.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/digital-library/o307506.
Cite this Collection
Chicago:
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/theodore-roosevelt-association-journal. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University.
MLA:
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. February 5, 2026. https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/theodore-roosevelt-association-journal.
APA:
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal. Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. Retrieved from https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/collection/theodore-roosevelt-association-journal.
