Sioux Village near Fort Laramie, by Albert Bierstadt, 1859, oil on panel - Blanton Museum of Art - Austin, Texas - DSC08186

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) was an American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. To paint the scenes, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century.