American Indian Beauty Pageant Winner, Oregon, 1997 William Albert Allard/National Geographic Stock “No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.” – Ansel Adams The Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, featured in A Love for the Beautiful, is among ten venues nationwide hosting “National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West” – a visual retrospective of images published by National Geographic over the past 125 years. From poignant portraits to spectacular national parks and wildlife, the 75 images present a powerful narrative about the American West. Organized thematically into four sections -- Legends, Encounters, Boundaries and Visions -- the show features historic works by early practitioners William Henry Jackson and Edward Curtis, along with modern and contemporary images by photographers like Ansel Adams, Annie Griffiths and Joel Read More