Jan Priddy’s Reviews > River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West > Status Update

So very smart and she assumes the reader will pay attention.

The chapter about the Modoc... so powerful!

This is elegant and insightful history—Solnit is approaching history from another direction, and I am genuinely impressed.

I've had this book since 2003, and though I have since become a Solnit fan, I had not found my way in. I am a Muybridge fan going back decades, and horse for longer. The bet about Occident, a trotting horse, fascinates. I have written to many online sources who want that bet to be about a galloping horse. The horse people I knew did not believe all four feet are off the ground at once in a trot. He proved it in 1872.