The American West has been romanticized and mythologized, painted and photographed and filmed. But it has rarely been captured in the scale of Macduff Everton's photographs. Each large-format, full-color, panoramic photograph presents 140 degrees of the seemingly limitless Western horizon: the lush colors, dramatic topography, and, above it all, the big sky. Centuries of settlement and development seem obliterated in these views of pristine natural beauty.For several years Everton and his wife, artist and writer Mary Heebner, traveled throughout the West as he photographed this most American of landscapes. Here are the magnificent scenic and historical landmarks: Monument Valley, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, the Rockies.Accompanying the photographs are lyrical and informative commentaries by Heebner. Edmund Morris, the renowned biographer of such important Western figures as Theodore Roosevelt, contributes a foreword on the place of the West in American culture and history.