Alpen-Panoramen, Panorama der Alpen

I don't know if this may be really a riddle... anyway I try. I intentionally deleted one hint...
In these days I'm reading a lot of books about the adventure of westward expansion in North America, in the mid-nineteenth century. Fascinating stories of settlers and mountain men sometimes eager for more freedom and solitude and open spaces rather than conquest and exploitation of the territory. Somehow this photo reminds me of suggestions very similar to those that a man on horseback in Oregon or on the Rocky Mountains had to experience ...