2-752-489 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Rocky Mountains', 1874. Native Americans fording the Platte on horseback, Nebraska, USA. Steel engraving after 'Crossing the River Platte', painted in 1871 by Worthington Whittredge, hanging in the Roosevelt Room at White House, Washington DC. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]