Frank Carlson Library

"Edward Curtis was dashing, charismatic, a passionate mountaineer, a famous photographer--the Annie Liebowitz of his time. And he was thirty-two years old in 1900 when he gave it all up to pursue his great idea: He would try to capture on film the Native American nation before it disappeared. At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, Egan's book tells the remarkable untold story behind Curtis's iconic photographs,...

A photographic documentary of American military life offers insight into the lives of the nation's elite units, new recruits, and MPs on outposts, strategic bases, and in the cockpits of fighter planes.