     Setting aside the disappointment he must have felt at the outcome of this competition, Moran quickly made plans to return west. Accompanied by his brother Peter, Moran clearly was on a mission to collect new material for pictures. Surviving sketches indicate that Thomas and Peter traveled to Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada range and sketched near Lake Tahoe and Salt Lake City before turning north toward Fort Hall and the Snake River country of Idaho. It was during this trip that Moran sketched the Teton Mountains for the first time--a subject he returned to several times in the 1890s. Years earlier, F.V. Hayden had named one of the Teton peaks "Mount Moran" in his honor.
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