About the cover

We inadvertently left off the full credit for the cover image. We should have credited the Smithsonian and Art Resource:

Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada, California, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC / Art Resource, NY
By the editors

[Christian History originally published this article in Christian History Issue #119 in 2016]

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