Peaks of the Sierra Blanca, from Near Fort Massachusetts

Stanley, John Mix · 1855

This tinted lithograph of “Peaks of the Sierra Blanca, from Near Fort Massachusetts" was produced by Sarony, Major & Knapp (1857--1867), New York, after a sketch by John Mix Stanley (1814-1872) and an original sketch by expedition artist R. H. Kern (1821-1853). It was printed as a plate in Volume II following page 42, in the "Report of Explorations for a Route for the Pacific Railroad, by Captain J. W. Gunnison (1812-1853), Topographical Engineers, Near the 38th and 39th Parallels of North Latitude, from the Mouth of the Kansas River, Missouri to the Sevier Lake in the Great Basin" by Lieutenant E. G. Beckwith (1818-1881), Third Artillery.