Description
The tale of four fascinating characters from one of the most thrilling chapters in American history, the late 19th century transition from the wild west to the industrial age. There’s the narrator of our story, Eadweard Muybridge, the eccentric and mysterious artist who conquered immense challenges to produce the first motion pictures. His young wife, Flora, one of the great beauties of San Francisco. Major Harry Larkyns, the English con-man who stole her heart and paid the ulitimate price. And Governor Leland Stanford, the richest and most powerful businessman in the nation, who was both Muybridge’s most important collaborator and the cause of his greatest downfall.
The astonishing story of one of the most and mysterious figures in American history, his collaboration and conflict with the nation’s richest and most powerful businessman, and his tumultuous marriage which ended in a cold-blooded murder, for which he was acquitted.
THE MOST THRILLING TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Collaboration and Conflict between an eccentric artist and the richest most powerful businessman in the nation.
- Love and Passion
- Murder
- Freedom
- Immortality
A broad sweep of American history from the Old West to the brink of the technological 20th century.
Two men at the center of the transition from Old West
The true story of some of the most fascinating yet little known mysterious characters in the American old west.
Yes there are battles between cowboys and Indians, but the story focuses on the tumultuous conflict between one of the greatest artists and his patron, the richest most powerful man in the nation.
One of the most famous people of his time, but not so well remembered today.
Collaborated with the richest most powerful man in the nation, Stanford
Married a woman half his age who cheated on him almost from the beginning.
When he discovered betrayal he tracked down her lover and murdered him in cold blood.
Put on trial for his life, he was defended by the greatest orator of the time and was acquitted.
What was to become motion pictures.
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