Carleton Watkins took this dynamic photograph of the Devil's Slide rock formation (which can now be viewed from the shoulder of Interstate-84) in 1873. Briefly he published the image in various formats including, most commonly, stereoview. Following the financial panic of the same year, Watkins lost his gallery and negatives to a creditor J. J. Cook, who ultimately sold the business to photographer I.W. Taber in the mid-1870s. Taber continued to reproduce Watkins' photographs without credit (as copyright laws for photography were non-existent at the time), and is responsible for the wider dissemination of many Watkins images. This example, a stunning and rich print, is larger than the majority of Taber printings, and perhaps closer to Watkins preferred presentation.