Weaving together landscape and memory, this book presents historical photographs of the Rio Grande of the American Southwest. The dynamic Rio Grande has run through all the valley s diverse cultures: Puebloan, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo. Photography arrived in the region at the beginning of the river s great transformation by trade, industry, and cultivation. In Rio Savage has collected images that document the sweeping history of that transformation from those of nineteenth-century expeditionary photographer W. H. Jackson to the work of the great twentieth-century chronicler of...