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


Currier and Ives, High Water on the Mississippi, print, 1868

Currier & Ives, High Water on the Mississippi, print, 1868
Courtesy of the Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts 		I can picture that old time to myself now, just as it was then: the white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer's morning... the great Mississippi, the majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun.

Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), Life on the Mississippi, 1883.

 Frank Leslies Sunday Evening on the Levee

J. Knickerbocker, Sunday Sketches on the Levee in St. Louis, published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated News, November 29, 1890.
Collection of the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis

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