Timothy H. O’Sullivan: Cooley’s Park, Sierra Blanca Range, Arizona, 1873

Cooley’s Park was taken during one of the expeditions Timothy O’Sullivan made out West in the late nineteenth century in Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado. O’Sullivan was assigned to join Lieutenant George M. Wheeler on the Geological Surveys West of the One-Hundredth Meridian, where he was part of a team required to photograph the topography and towns as well as Native Americans. This image was taken in Arizona, close to the canyons and rock dwellings where several tribes were living at the time. O’Sullivan’s Western photographs represent not only an explorer’s first encounter with a new terrain but also an artist’s vision of the power of nature, at once threatening and awesome. Encountering the Western wilderness, O’Sullivan traversed American frontiers of land and photography.

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