ARTH 492

 
Images of the American West: Myths & Realities
Professor: Butterfield
Lecture 4: Westward Journey

1. Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, House of Representatives, whole.
2. Woodville, Richard Caton, War News from Mexico, 1848.
3. Mount, William Sidney, California News, whole.
4. Anonymous, Goldminers, California, whole, daguerrotype, 19th century.
5. Nahl, Charles Christian, Miners in the Sierras, 1851-52.
6. Miller, Alfred Jacob, Green River (Oregon), 1858-60.
7. Stanley, John Mix, Oregon, City on the Willamette River, whole.
8. Gast, John, American Progress, whole.
9. Jewett, William S., The Promised Land-The Grayson Family, 1850.
10. Bingham, George Caleb, Emigration of Daniel Boone, whole.
11. Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb, Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way, whole.
12. Melrose, Andrew, Near Council Bluffs Nebraska-Westward the Star of Empire Takes its Way, whole.
13. Currier & Ives, Across the Continent/ Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, 1868.
14. Bierstadt, Albert, Emigrants crossing the plains, whole.
15. Currier & Ives, The Rocky Mountains/Emmigrants Crossing the Plains, 1866.
16. Ranney, William Tylee, Advice on the Prairie, whole.
17. Grozelier, Leopold, On the Prarie, 1860.
18. Ranney, William Tylee, The Prairie Fire, 1850's.
19. Ranney, William Tylee, Prairie Burial, 1848.
20. Stanley, John Mix, Scouts in the Tetons, c.1854-63.
21. Cary, William de la Montagne, Harper's Weekly, Indians Gambling for Possession of Female after Attack on Wagon Train, 1870.
22. Rothermel, Peter Frederick, Desoto Discovering the Mississippi, 1843.
23. Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb, Washington Crossing the Delaware, whole.
24. Cole, Thomas, Oxbow, whole.
25. Leutze, Emanuel Gottlieb, Departure of Columbus from Palos in 1492, whole.
26. Persico, E. Luigi, Discovery, whole.
27. Church, Frederic Edwin, Niagra Falls, whole.
28. Ranney, William Tylee, Daniel Boone's First view of Kentucky, whole.
29. Bierstadt, Albert, Rocky Mountains, whole.
30. Bierstadt, Albert, Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, on exhibition at Metropolitan Museum, NY.
31. Bierstadt, Albert, Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, chromolithograph published in 1869.
32. Bierstadt, Albert, Surveyor's Wagon in the Rockies, whole.
33. Bierstadt, Albert, Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mount Rosalie, whole.
34. Bierstadt, Albert, Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mount Rosalie, detail.
35. Bierstadt, Albert, Sunset in the Yosemite Valley, whole.
36. Bierstadt, Albert, Cho-Looke, The Yosemite Fall, whole.
37. Hahn, William, Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point, 1874.
38. Moran, Thomas, Spirit of the Indian, 1869.
39. Turner, Joseph Mallord William, Snowstorm: Hannibal and his Army Croosing the Alps, whole.
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