Ron Tyler

In July of 1975, shortly after coming to know Jesus as his Savior, Ron Tyler prayed, “Lord, I will be anything You want me to be! I will go anywhere You want me to go! I will do anything You want me to do!” In that moment, Ron heard God respond, “I am going to use you to reach hundreds of thousands of people for Me.” The next 13 years saw Ron leave the corporate world and enter the pastorate, having his faith and obedience tested and refined, sometimes in very extreme circumstances. In 1988, Ron and his family got a different calling from the Lord. They were given the opportunity to head up an effort by Evangelism Explosion International to spread the gospel across the entire continent of Africa. In his heart, Ron knew that this was it! Again, faith and extreme obedience were required, but while there, Ron and his family helped pioneer a new method of evangelism that ultimately resulted in 25 million people saved across the African continent. This is their story—a story which clearly displays the truth that there is no limit to what God can do through surrendered and obedient hearts!

You Want Me to Do What!?!

Karl Bodmer

In 1832, twenty-two-year-old Swiss artist Karl Bodmer was employed to create a "faithful and vivid image" of America and its people. This book contains 431 illustrations (most in color), which reflect the updating of Bodmer's documenting process, and essays and appendices elucidating all aspects of the project.

Karl Bodmer's North American Prints

For nearly half a century, celebrated historian Ron Tyler has researched, interpreted, and exhibited western American art. This splendid volume, gleaned from Tyler’s extensive career of connoisseurship, brings together eight of the author’s most notable essays, reworked especially for this volume. Beautifully illustrated with more than 150 images, Western Art, Western History tells the stories of key artists, both famous and obscure, whose provocative pictures document the people and places of the nineteenth-century American West. The artists depicted in these pages represent a variety of personalities and artistic styles. According to Tyler, each of them responded in unique ways to the compelling and exotic drama that unfolded in the West during the nineteenth century—an age of exploration, surveying, pleasure travel, and scientific discovery. In eloquent and engaging prose, Tyler unveils a fascinating cast of characters, including the little-known German-Russian artist Louis Choris, who served as a draftsman on the second Russian circumnavigation of the globe; the exacting and precise Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, who accompanied Prince Maximilian of Wied on his sojourn up the Missouri River; and the young American Alfred Jacob Miller, whose seemingly frivolous and romantic depictions of western mountain men and American Indians remained largely unknown until the mid-twentieth century. Other artists showcased in this volume are John James Audubon, George Caleb Bingham, Alfred E. Mathews, and, finally, Frederic Remington, who famously sought to capture the last glimmers of the “old frontier.” A common thread throughout Western Art, Western History is the important role that technology—especially the development of lithography—played in the dissemination of images. As the author emphasizes, many works by western artists are valuable not only as illustrations but as scientific documents, imbued with cultural meaning. By placing works of western art within these broader contexts, Tyler enhances our understanding of their history and significance.

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