Bierstadt's painting hit a nerve with contemporary Americans, by portraying the grandeur and pristine beauty of the nation's western wilderness.

Will you travel into the western wilderness where you cannot be found?

This population and a few other settlements in the area constituted the sparse concentration of white settlers to be found in the isolated western wilderness.

His pursuit of the abundant white-tailed deer, black bear, panthers and wolves through the "western wilderness" became legendary.

Dingwall was the start for the journey into 'the great western wilderness'.

During the past twenty years, Michael Martin Murphey has been a champion of western cowboy culture and the western wilderness.

After spending three years in the western wilderness, the Bannermans joined an eastward trek to the Talbot Settlement near Lake Erie.

A thriving business developed around Indian traders who with their pack horses spread throughout the western wilderness.

This one he targeted deep in the western wilderness, to a lovely valley he himself had once called home.

It was like an encouragement for the youth of the day to head to the untamed western wilderness of fabled beauty.