Painting the Mississippi River Henry Lewis, 1819-1904 Artist Henry Lewis sketched and painted scenes along the Mississippi River between 1846 and 1848. He compiled them into a panoramic painting nearly half a mile in length, which was a popular theater attraction in the U.S. and Europe. Later he settled in Germany where he published a book based on his panorama. http://publications.newberry.org/frontiertoheartland/ .

Indians Spearing Fish, 1857

Rollende Prairie, 1857

Travelling Hunting Party, 1857

Nauvoe, Illinois, 1857 Mormons fleeing persecution in New York State and then Missouri settled in Nauvoo after 1832, building it up to one of the largest cities in Illinois by the mid-1840s. In 1846 other Illinois residents expelled the Mormons, who headed west for Utah.

The Indian Camp, 1857

The Falls of St. Anthony, 1857

Dubuque in Iowa, 1857 A long time site of lead mining, in the 1840s Dubuque was a commercial center along the upper Mississippi River.

Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1830

The Grand Council American Indians gather along the river in conference.

Saint Louis in 1846