Adventures in the West

August 30 - December 10, 2012

Shown in conjunction with the 11th Biennial Jack London Society Symposium held in Logan, Utah and co-sponsored by the USU Department of English and the USU Special Collections Department in the Merrill - Cazier Library, Adventures in the West features majestic landscape photographs by American photo giants such as Ansel Adams and Brett Weston. The symposium was held October 4-6, 2012, but this exhibition is on display in the museum's upper gallery throughout the entire fall 2012 semester. The exhibition explores the rugged, historical, and dangerous qualities of the western world portrayed in Jack London's writing. Certain drawings and photographs in this exhibition are on display in the museum for the first time, and they help explore literary themes of naturalism, courage, modern American values, and man's precarious relationship to his natural environment.