Beautiful photographs and story about the history of Jews in Wyoming. Three waves, basically, the first during the Dry Homesteading Act, the second in the 1920s from Eastern Europe to escape discrimination, and the third second-homers in Jackson.
I find history books too often boring. But I need to learn about the history of Wyoming. So I'm doing it by learning from the stories of minorities.
The photographer is a Jew from Cheyenne who started her career shooting the Cheyenne Frontier Days -- the largest rodeo in the United States -- then became a professional photographer of Hollywood types, and returned to Wyoming to work on the book on the side. She received money from the National Endowment for the Humanities to finish it. Some of her captions, I felt, led me to asking more questions. Photos are black-and-white and since it took 15 years to complete the book, there is a lack of consistency, in my opinion.
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