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Winner of
the William P. Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction
Book on Southwestern America Published in 2002
 Print
the Legend:
Photography and the American West
Yale University Press, 2002
Honoring Martha Sandweiss
This
prize-winning book tells the intertwined stories of
photography and the American West—a new medium and a
new place that came of age together in the
nineteenth century.
Historian
Martha Sandweiss will receive the William P. Clements
Book Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern
America for Print the Legend: Photography and the
American West. On Thursday, November 13, she will
present a lecture with slides of the book's images at 6
p.m. in the Umphrey-Lee Ballroom, 3300 Dyer Street.
There will be a reception at 5:30 p.m. and a
book-signing following the lecture. The event is free
and open to the public.
Professor
Sandweiss is known to area museum lovers for her work at
the Amon Carter Museum prior to joining the faculty at
Amherst College in Massachusetts. In her richly
illustrated new book, she tells the intertwined stories
of photography and the American West--a new medium and a
new place that came of age together in the nineteenth
century.
Awards include:
Winner of the 2002 Ray Allen Billington
Prize given annually by the Organization of American
Historians for the best book in American frontier
history; Winner of the 2003 William P. Clements Prize,
awarded by Southern Methodist University to the best
non-fiction book on Southwestern America; and Winner of
the 2004 Barbara Sudler Award sponsored by the Colorado
Historical Society
The $2,500
Clements Book Prize honors fine writing and original
research on the American Southwest. The competition is
open to any nonfiction book, including biography, on any
aspect of Southwestern life, past or present. The
William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies is part
of SMU's Dedman College and affiliated with the
Department of History. It was created to promote
research, publishing, teaching and public programming in
a variety of fields related to the American Southwest.
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