We Had Them to Pass
“We had a most beautiful and picturesque view of the Rocky Mountains which were perfectly covered with snow . . . they appear to be formed of several ranges each succeeding range rising higher than the preceding one until the most distant appear to lose their snowy tops in the clouds; this was an August spectacle and still rendered more formidable by the recollection that we had them to pass . . .” — Meriwether Lewis; Undaunted Courage, p. 236
Albert Bierstadt
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