WONDERS OF THE WEST
May 01, 2022
3 minutes
by Marcia Amidon Lusted
People had a hard time believing everything they were hearing from the first explorers of the American West in the mid-1800s. Fantastic descriptions of shooting geysers, incredible waterfalls, ancient cliff dwellings, and dramatic mountain ridges were trickling back to the East. Many Americans viewed those descriptions with skepticism.
Photography offered a way to visually document the country’s unusual landscape. As a result of the work of a few daring photographers, sights that most people viewed as simply unbelievable were
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