the volunteer group was called to Mount Bierstadt on Friday after 8 p.m. The 20-year-old college student from Texas had set out in the morning to climb the peak, setting off from the winter ...

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...