2-752-516 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Steamboat Rock, Wisconsin River', 1874. Tourists visit an unusual rock formation on the Wisconsin River, Wisconsin, USA. 'Regaining the river, we travel southward...the boundary rocks counterfeit the sterns of four or five steamboats moored together, with their several tiers of galleries, one above another'. 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]