When they ask to see your gods, your book of prayers,show them lines drawn delicately with veins on the underside of a bird’s wing.
Tell them you believe in giant sycamores mottled and stark against a winter sky,
and in nights so frozen stars crack open...
Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mount Rosalie,1866
Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868
Sierra Nevada c. 1871–1873Looking Down Yosemite Valley, 1865
California Spring, 1875
Storm in the Mountains, c. 1870Rocky Mountain Landscape, 1870Mount Corcoran, c. 1876–77,