Butte Gallery

Dial Rock, Red Buttes, Laramie Plains, 1874. Creator: John Filmer

Dial Rock, Red Buttes, Laramie Plains, 1874. Rock formation in Wyoming, USA. The far-off Red Buttes are most note-worthy and most picturesque of these; grouped together like giant fortresses, with fantastic towers and walls, they lift ragged edges above the prairie, looking lonely, weird, and strong. Among the singular shapes their masses of stone assume, the strangely-formed and pillar-like Dial Rocks tower up - four columns of worn and scarred sandstone, like the supports of some ruined cromlech built by giants. About them, and, indeed, through the whole region...the country is a barren, unproductive waste'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]

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