The Devil’s Highway
Monument Valley, Utah, 2021
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Twentynine Palms, CA, 2019
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Near Beatty, NV, 2018
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Quitaque, TX, 2020
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Seligman, AZ, 2018
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
South Tucson, AZ, 2021
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Tucumcari, NM, 2020
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Baker, CA, 2019 (The Mad Greek Café)
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Oatman, AZ, 2019 (Where Clark Gable and Carole Lombard spent their wedding night in 1939)
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
North Rim, Grand Canyon, AZ, 2019
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Twentynine Palms, CA, 2019
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Amarillo, TX, 2016 (The Big Texan)
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Oatman, AZ, 2019
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Joshua Tree, CA, 2019
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Seligman, AZ, 2018
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Vaughn, NM, 2020
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Las Vegas, NM, 2020
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Holbrook, AZ, 2015
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Vega, TX, 2020
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Seligman, AZ, 2018
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Oatman, AZ, 2019
14.5 x 22”, Epson HDR on Hahnemuhle Pearl
The images in this collection are more personal, more elegiac–and all black-and-white. They bear witness to the fracturing of the American Dream, the demise of cowboy culture, the shrinking of small towns, ranches, and farms throughout western rural America.
Book | The Devil’s Highway
The Devil’s Highway
By Joan Myers
with a short story by William deBuys
Available at Dolph Briscoe Center for American History and Amazon
Hardcover, 168 pages, 12 x 9.5, 86 photographs
ISBN: 978–1‑953480–15‑6
“Joan Myers’s powerful photographs of the vernacular landscape of the rural West evoke comparisons to the classic images made by the WPA photographers during the Great Depression. If rural westerners in the 1930s felt the American dream eluded them, that same sense of loss and despair also haunts these pictures made during the second decade of the 21st century; the old myth of frontier possibilities a false but enduring taunt that no longer offers a roadmap for modern life.” – Martha A. Sandweiss Author, Print the Legend: Photography and the American West