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BIERSTADT, Albert: North Fork of the Platte, Nebraska

🖼 North Fork of the Platte, Nebraska, 1863
Tulsa, United States

Golden light bathes a vast Nebraska landscape where the Platte River winds through rolling plains dotted with buffalo and Native American encampments, rendered in luminous detail. Bierstadt's monumental view epitomizes 19th-century American expansion ideology, transforming the frontier into sublime wilderness for Eastern audiences.

Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt
Peter H. Hassrick
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