Carl Roters and the Rendezvous Murals. HC New in DJ. 2004

Burwen, David M., Burwen, Susan Jo. Mountain View. Venture Development Group. 2004.

English Language, First Edition, New, HC, 13" x 12 1/4," oblong folio, 150 pp. 

ISBN: 0974803006

New hardcover in rust orange cloth, pictorial gatefold dustjacket now in Mylar. 150 pp. replete with full color and black-and-white images of the early watercolors of fur trapper Alfred Jacob Miller, alongside the murals Carl Roter later created at the Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, based on Miller's work. This book tells the remarkable story of how John D. Rockefeller came to commission the murals, the competition that ensued, and the murals Roter produced based on Miller's 1st person 1837 watercolor depictions of the yearly fur-trappers' meeting with their Native American counterparts called, "The Rendezvous." A beautifully produced, expertly written, and sumptuously illustrated volume detailing a little-known event that helped shape American history, and the murals that still stand as testament.