The early American West has been depicted in art as a land of harsh struggles, a place of heavenly miracles, and everything in between. "Different ""Travellers"," Different Eyes" records impressions of life on the nineteenth-and early twentieth-century American frontier by twenty-one artists better known for their paintings, sculptures, and photographs. Most but not all the selections come from journals or diaries kept during trips to the West.
Thomas Moran, for instance, notes what others must have felt, that "the impression then made upon me by the stupendous and remarkable...