Original woodblock print;
Printed from one block of poplar wood;
6.5” x 5”; Edition of 30

A view across the Gallatin River in SW Montana, north of Yellowstone National Park, where the river originates. The river is named after Abraham Alfonse Albert de Gallatin. Born in Switzerland in 1761, and arriving as an immigrant in Boston in 1780, he was appointed Secretary of the Treasury in the Jefferson administration in 1801. Meriwether Lewis named the river after him in 1805.

Gallatin became the nation’s longest serving Treasury Secretary, and, with Madison and Jefferson, was one of the three top officials in the Jefferson administration.

Later in life, he studied Native American languages and co-founded the American Ethnological Society.