Do you remember when you first saw an infinite sky over an open highway, accompanied by your friends singing, laughing, snoring? Do you remember when the world was broad and overflowing in your hands?

The artworks used are:

Saturday Evening Post 1902-12-13
"The Vicious Circle" by Owen Wister
https://archive.org/details/SaturdayEveningPost19021213

Gene Autry and Raiders of the Range - Big Little Book, Novel
https://archive.org/details/GeneAutryAndRaidersOfTheRange-BigLittleBook

"Cowboy Singing" by Thomas Eakins (ca. 1892)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10814

Cowboy Shoots At Audience
Scene from Edwin S. Porter's"The Great Train Robbery" (1903)
https://archive.org/details/CEP146

"My Bunkie" by Charles Schreyvogel (1899)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/12543

"Shoshone" by Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1867-1872)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/283214

"Hanging Rock, Foot of Echo Cañon" by Andrew Joseph Russell (1867-1868)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/265001

"Mormon Emigrant Train, Echo Canyon" by Charles William Carter (1870)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/283211

"The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak" by Albert Bierstadt (1863)
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10154

Photos are mine. The map background was generated using Mapbox.

This is a semi-autobiographical scrapbook about my first wide-eyed visit to the American Southwest on a college road trip.

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