Public Domain, Metropolitan Museum of Art, via Wikimedia Commons
The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak
Albert Bierstadt • 1863
Monumental landscape showing the Wind River Range of the Rocky Mountains with a Shoshone encampment. The Shoshone people depicted are the same nation Sacagawea belonged to, and the Rocky Mountains crossing was the expedition’s greatest physical challenge.
Scene Location
Wind River Range, Rocky Mountains, Wyoming
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