As Ephriam D. Dickson III details in the fall 2015 Utah Historical Quarterly, the James Simpson expedition to California resulted in the some of the earliest landscape photographs and drawings in Utah. Simpson employed the artist H. V. A. Von Beckh and the photographers Samuel C. Mills and Edward Jagiello to photograph the landscape and landforms over which his expedition passed, as well as military buildings and camp scenes–at Fort Laramie, Fort Bridger, Camp Floyd. The following is a sampling of the photographs and sketches produced during the historic expedition.