"OH MY GOD !... BEARS !...THEY'RE EV'RYWHERE !...WHAT SHOULD I DO !?!...HELP !" Watercolor plate. From the series "WILDERNESS". "There were mountains higher than any had ever seen, ranges whose vastness dwalfed the Alps. Not even the arid plains of Spain could match the vast deserts that lay ahead here. There were wonders and terrors such as the Old World had never seen. Truly this region before them was a New World that defied adequate description, and here the evolution of definitions had to stop. This West was a West of the mind and imagination, one whose impact upon those who set forth into it was so forceful that it precluded any further refinement of the meaning of mere words. This was the West, and so it would remain ..." -"The American Frontier" by William C. Davis (1946)-