The University Libraries website has been designed using XHTML and Cascading Style Sheets to enhance accessibility. It also uses limited javascript. These options are not supported well in browser versions earlier than 5.0. If you are seeing this message, your page may not display well. Please upgrade your browser to Netscape version 7 or higher or Internet Explorer version 6 or higher.

If you have problems with any portion of this site, you may email the site developer here, or send a note to linda.newman@uc.edu.
"Sublime and Beautiful Mountain Scenery":
Western Images of A.E. Mathews
Church Buttes
Church Buttes.
13. Alfred Edward Mathews (1831-1874). Church Buttes. Tinted lithograph, Plate 17. Mathews, A.E. Gems of Rocky Mountain Scenery. New York: The Author, 1869. St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis.
"This truly singular formation is near the old overland stage road, within eight miles of the Union Pacific Railway, and forty-five miles from Green River, in the Territory of Utah. The sketch was made when Wells, Fargo & Co.'s coaches were running, and represents one of them going west."