2-752-384 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Cliffs of Green River', 1874. Rock formations on the Green River, chief tributary of the Colorado River, western USA. 'Only with the approach to Green River does the verdure come again - and then only here and there, generally close by the river-bank. Here the picturesque forms of the buttes reappear - a welcome relief to the monotony that has marked the outlook during the miles of level desert that are past. The distance, too, is changed, and no longer is like the great surface of a sea. To the north, forming the horizon, stretches the Wind-River Range...'. 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]