Carleton Watkins: making the West American

Sunrise in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains

Arriving in California

Creating western culture at Black Point

Secession or union?

To Yosemite in wartime

Sharing Yosemite

Exhibiting Yosemite in wartime

Expanding the western landscape

The birth of the nature park idea

Assisting American science

To Oregon (for industry)

Volcanic landscapes

Basking in achievement, building a business

Celebrating Gilded Age wealth

Taking Shasta, discovering glaciers

The boom years

San Francisco's borrasca

The comeback

Creating semi-tropical California

Showing California its history

Enter William H. Lawrence

Re-building a business

Mapping from the mountaintops

Becoming agricultural

Traveling the west (again)

The new industrial agriculture near Bakersfield, California

The last great picture

The long, slow end.