Sepia Saturday: Rock(y)

 


Sepia Saturday challenges bloggers with a visual prompt each week. They've been working their way through the alphabet and now are at R and this week offer a Rolling Stones concert for inspiration. 

Rather than go with rock and roll, I'm going with Rocky Mountains. (Lots of rock bands' images are still under copyright and I don't have any fitting photos of my own.)

So "Westward, Ho!"


Smillie, James David, Engraver, and Albert Bierstadt. Rocky Mountains / ABierstadt. Rocky Mountains, ca. 1866. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/95513915/.


Jenks, Daniel A., Artist. Cherokee Pass, Rocky Mountains. California Colorado, 1859. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2004661635/.


C. Duhem & Bro, photographer. View of Rocky Mountains. , None. [Denver, co.: between 1869 and 1879] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2006676237/.

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Comments

  1. Those are some big rocks! Love the Rockies, nothing like my home Appalachians!

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  2. Three great photo/graphic selections. The Rockies were awe-inspiring then and continue to be now. Thank goodness images like these helped push federal legislators to pass laws safeguarding the country's majestic natural heritage. Now we just have to hang onto it!

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    1. Yes. Future generations should have the memories I have of vacations in the Rockies.

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  3. For a time from age 6 to 8 my family lived in eastern Kansas and one summer we went on a camping vacation trip to Colorado. After what seemed like a never-ending drive across the flat prairie, I remember how exciting it was to finally see this awesome mountain range rise up from the horizon. In the 19th century these images you've chosen were the only kind of reference available for most Americans to appreciate the Rockies. Etchings like that first one must have inspired many people to go see it for themselves.

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  4. The Rocky Mountains are spectacular…wonderful photos and a reminder of our trip there.

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