National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West: Capturing 125 Years of Majesty, Spirit, and Adventure

A Look Inside National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West

Wyoming, 1988. Symbolically rising from primordial mist, a bull elk stands in the early morning smoke of the Yellowstone National Park fires. (Photo by Michael S. Quinton, p. 78-79)Wyoming, 2008. Backlit against a painted sky, Yellowstone s Great Fountain Geyser shoots above the terraced reflective pools around its vent. (Photo by Michael Melford, p. 20-21)Nebraska, 2004. A pair of workers halts haying in the Sand Hills to watch with concern and awe as rolling thunderheads fill the afternoon sky. (Photo by Jim Richardson, p. 164-165)