Albert Bierstadt's West

by Gerald L. Carr

Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) took his first trip West early in 1859 with Frederic Lander. He was chosen to be a civilian artist on a government expedition which set out to improve the wagon roads of the South Pass from Fort Kearny to the eastern border of California. By the middle of the year, Bierstadt was following the same steps taken by Alfred Jacob Miller twenty-two years earlier, on the Oregon Trail. Along the way he met and sketched thousands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093503790X
• ISBN13: 9780935037906
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Gerald Peters Gallery
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 11.4" x 8.8"