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Chimney Rock, Nebraska, 2000

Photo: Hazy orange glow over Chimney Rock monument

Twilight descends on Chimney Rock, a 325-foot (100-meter) geological formation in Nebraska's North Platte River valley. In the first half of the 19th century, scores of emigrants traveling west on the Oregon Trail passed this famous landmark, originally called "Elk Penis" by Native Americans before it was renamed by white settlers.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Way West," September 2000, National Geographic magazine)

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Photograph by Jim Richardson