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Crystal Bridges American Art

By bellavery99

  • Compromise of 1850

  • "Go West, Young Man"

    New York Tribune editor, Horace Hreeley popularizes the phrase, "Go West, Young Man"

  • Gadsden Purchase Bewteen the United States and Mexico

  • The Life of a Hunter: A Tight Fix

    The Life of a Hunter: A Tight Fix

    Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait finishes his oil on canvas interpretation of the American Frontier, "The Life of a Hunter: A Tight Fix"
  • The Backwoods of America

    The Backwoods of America

    Also a oil on canvas work, this was the year that Jasper Francis Cropsey's "The Backwoods of America" was created

  • Oregon admitted as the 33rd state

  • Commstock Lode

    Countries first "Silver Rush" taking place in present day Nevada

  • Pony Express completes first deliveries

  • Battle of Apache Pass in Arizona

  • Bear River Massacre

  • The Return of the Gleaner

    The Return of the Gleaner

    Another oil on canvas work, this marks the creation of Winslow Hovner's "The Return of the Gleaner"

  • Treaty of Fort Laramie

  • First recorded White Men to traverse the Grand Canyon