Photographic Memory: William Henry Jackson and the American West

"Notable underground-era cartoonist and Zippy creator Bill Griffith turns his attention to his namesake in this serious, deeply researched biography told in sharply attentive black-and-white comics. Griffith’s great-grandfather, William Henry Jackson, was best known as the official photographer on the 1870 government survey of Yellowstone, with photographs that led to the establishment of the first national park. Griffith builds on a vast archive – including letters, diaries and a published autobiography – to painstakingly detail the 90 years of this adventurous illustrator, adventurer and photographer’s life, including brushes along the way with the likes of Ansel Adams, Thomas Nast, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Richard F. Outcault."