Hard covered book titled VISIONS OF THE WEST Art and Artifacts from the Private Collections of J.P. Bryan, Torch Energy Advisers Incorporated and Others Edited by Melissa Baldridge, with an introduction by Patricia Nelson Limerick, cloth bound with gold lettering, dust jacket, First Edition, 1999, SIGNED & INSCRIBED by J.P. Bryan, 320 pages, high quality glossy paper.

This book presents over two hundred years of collecting as assembled by historic preservationist and corporate maverick J.P. Bryan. It documents his decades-long collecting career covering the art and material culture of western North America in the Torch Collection of Torch Energy Advisors Incorporated - one of the nation's largest corporate art collections - and along the trails of Bryan's international business ventures. Many of the pieces have never before been published.

Topics include:
 

• ART UNBOUNDED
• PEOPLE WITHOUT BORDERS: NATIVES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PLAINS
• THE MISSIONARY LED INDIAN COMMUNITIES
• FIESTAS: WHERE CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN TRIBES & ANCIENT CUSTOMS MEET
• CHRISTIAN ART & IMAGERY IN MEXICO
• THE BLACK WEST
• COWGIRLS: THE WILD, WILD WOMEN OF THE WEST
• HORSEMAN, RIDE WEST!: THE EVOLUTION OF THE SPUR
• TOOLS OF TRIUMPH & TRAGEDY: FIREARMS IN THE AMERICAN WEST
• THE SEARCH FOR TEXAS

This sensational book is in VG+ condition, pages are clean and intact, and the binding is tight. The dust jacket is also in VG+ condition. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by J.P. Bryan,