1. Visualizing Land in the Post-Civil War West

2. Among the Sierra Nevada, California by Albert Bierstadt, 1868 (Smithsonian American Art Museum) Landscape as an artistic subject

3. Cliffs of the Upper Colorado, Wyoming Territory by Thomas Moran, 1882 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

4. Landscape in the service of exploration Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone by Thomas Moran, 1872 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

5. View in Zuni, Looking Northeast by Jack Hillers, c. 1880 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

6. Landscape and the railroads Temporary and Permanent Bridges and Citadel Rock by Andrew Russell, 1868 (Yale University)

7. Celebrating the Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Point, Utah by Andrew Russell, 1869 (Yale University)

8. Donner Lake from the Summit by Albert Bierstadt, 1873 (New-York Historical Society)

9. Landscape and science Valley of the Chugwater, Wyoming Territory by Sanford Gifford, 1870 (Amon Carter Museum) Castellated Rocks on the Chugwater by William Henry Jackson, 1870 (George Eastman House)

10. Historic Spanish Record of the Conquest, South Side of Inscription, New Mexico by Timothy O’Sullivan, 1873 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

11. Black Canyon of the Colorado River, Looking Above from Camp 8 by Timothy O’Sullivan, 1871 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

12. Landscape in the service of industry Union Diggings, Columbia Hill, Nevada County by Carleton Watkins, c.1871 (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

13. George Hoag’s Record Wheat Harvest by Andrew Hill, 1876 (Private Collection)

14. Landscape in the promotion of tourism Looking Down Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point by William Hahn, 1874 (California Historical Society)

15. Yosemite Valley from Mariposa Trail by Carleton Watkins, c. 1865 (Huntington Library)

16. Big Tree – Mariposa Station by Thomas Hill, c. 1886 (Private Collection)

17. Bicyclist Group on Minerva Terrace, Yellowstone by Frank Jay Haynes, 1896 (Montana Historical Society)