The latter half of the 19th century saw the "golden age" of the ... These photos were taken across the American West between the late 1800s and the early 1900s.

For legions of Americans in the mid-19th century, the call of the West could not be ignored ... to claim their place in the ever-expanding American landscape. The early followers of Joseph ...

Three generations of a pioneering family experience many ordeals and adventures in their endeavour to build a new life for ...

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...