From Salina, Kansas to Taos, New Mexico.(photographs of Western United States then and...

Martin D. Mitchell revisits the 1936 travels of geographer George J. Miller sixty years later

Re-photography and time

In July 1936, geography professor George J. Miller of Mankato State Teachers College (now Minnesota State University, Mankato) traveled through the core of the Dust Bowl and the upper Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico on a tour of western North America. He took over sixty photographs and documented his impressions of the landscape into a field diary. Sixty years later, in July 1996 with Miller's field data and a 1936 road map in hand, his previ