The Rocky Mountains: A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century Home & Living which traces the history and

which traces the history and development of pen-and-ink illustration and chronicles America's richly varied illustrative tradition and artistic heritage

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by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

a curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art

The Rocky Mountains: A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century Home & Living which traces the history andThroughout the nineteenth century the Rockies inspired mixed emotions a paradoxical combination of spiritual response and emotional resistance. The towering earth forms were at once awesome, beautiful, and forbidding. It is understandable, then, that the chronicle of men's responses to the Rocky Mountains is a voluminous one. Every means of expression, every form of poetry and prose, has gone into the account; but it was the artists' vision that