Snow-mass Mountain is a drawing by Print Collector which was uploaded on January 29th, 2021.
Snow-mass Mountain
Snow-Mass Mountain', 1874. View of Snowmass Mountain, in the Elk Mountains, Colorado, USA. 'It is a terribly hard road to travel. The slopes consist... more
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Snow-mass Mountain
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Print Collector
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Snow-Mass Mountain', 1874. View of Snowmass Mountain, in the Elk Mountains, Colorado, USA. 'It is a terribly hard road to travel. The slopes consist of masses of immense granitic fragments, the rock-bed from which they came appearing only occasionally. When we reach the crest, we find it also broken and cleft in masses and pillars. Professor Whitney ingeniously reckons that an industrious man, with a crow-bar, could, by a week's industrious exertion, reduce the height of the mountain one or two hundred feet. Some of the members of the expedition amuse themselves by the experiment, toppling over great fragments, which thunder down the slopes, and furrow the wide snow-fields below'. 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]. Artist Thomas Moran. (Photo by The Print Collector/Heritage Images via Getty Images)
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January 29th, 2021
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