Mormon Temple Butte

Pen, ink, and graphite drawing on paper "Mormon Temple Butte" by Merritt Dana Houghton. The landscape depicts a rocky ravine with a scattering of small shrubs. The height of the rock outcrops increases into the distance as the amount of detail decreases.

Merritt Dana "M.D." Houghton (31 May 1846 -- March 1919) was an artist who traveled Wyoming creating pen and ink drawings of both existing and his interpretation of historic locations. He made his home at various times in Laramie, Saratoga, Buffalo, and Encampment where he completed large (and unknown) number of ink sketches of mines, ranches and landscapes. His many drawings and maps record an otherwise lost era in Wyoming's history.