Crawford Notch--the landscape and conception of sublime here has more meaning: In August, 1826, an avalanche at Crawford Notch took the lives of the Willey Family, nine in all.  Crawford Notch, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, was a well-known scenic site and Cole’s audience would have known of this tragedy.
	Hawthorne’s  “The Ambitious Guest” (1837) is a story about the tragedy
	Sense of ominousness with the storm coming on: scale dwarfs humanity
	Crawford Notch--the landscape and conception of sublime here has more meaning:
	Ancient gnarled tree--device used by Cole to underscore age of America's wilderness