![Catching Up Alfred Jacob Miller 1837 Fur Traders](https://www.historynet.com/wp-content/uploads/1997/08/Catching-Up-Alfred-Jacob-Miller-1837-Fur-Traders-scaled.jpg)
Alfred Jacob Miller’s “Catching Up” depicts an 1837 gathering of raucous fur traders in present-day Wyoming. John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Company crossed the entire continent before closing shop in 1847. (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore)
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore