Lander Peak

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Lander Peak, elevation 10,463 ft (3,189 m),[1] is a mountain located in Western Wyoming, near the border with Idaho.

The mountain is better known due to a painting by Albert Bierstadt. In 1859, Frederick W. Lander, accompanied by Bierstadt, embarked on a western expedition. On his return he painted a mountain landscape on a large Script error: No such module "convert". canvas, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak. Following the death of General Lander during the Civil War in 1862, Bierstadt named the peak Lander's Peak.[2] The painting was completed in 1863 and sold in 1865 for $25,000.

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