Image and Imagination: Art of the American West
Collage of Artwork
Documenting Westward Expansion Revealing an Unseen Landscape Portraying the Native American


St. Louis, Missouri. Broadway Avenue print from the Illustrated London News, May 1, 1858

St. Louis, Missouri. Broadway Avenue, in the Illustrated London News, May 1, 1858
Collection of the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis 		The frontier is the outer edge of the wave - the meeting point - between savagery and civilization ... the line of most rapid and effective Americanization. The wilderness masters the colonist.

Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1894

 Six Horse Stage Oil on Canvas Painting

Oscar Berninghaus, Six Horse Stage, oil on canvas, 1918.
Courtesy the Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts

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