15o Years of Change
on the Great Plains
An open-access Book
Robert Benecke (1835-1903) was a St. Louis photographer who was hired by the Kansas Pacific Railroad to take promotional photographs along the entire length of the Railroad. Benecke traveled from Kansas City to Denver in the early 1870s, creating a rich legacy of views of the Great Plains at a very early date. In this book, Benecke's landscape photographs are paired with new photographs of the same views. Comparing the old and new photographs, the reader can appreciate how the region has changed over the 150 year time span.
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DOI https://doi.org/10.17161/1808.34963; ISBN 978-1-936153-31-2
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This book has been produced as a means to share interesting views of Great Plains landscapes. As such, I have an electronic (pdf format) copy available to anyone who wishes to download it, available via KU Scholarworks. For those who would prefer a hard copy, I have made arrangements for that as well, which are via Jayhawk Ink. Please note that the cost of "print on demand" is the cost of the printing, and includes no profit or royalties for the author.
