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Charles Roscoe Savage was a British-born landscape and portrait photographer noted for his images of the American West. He converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints early in life, before he moved to America. In fact he was supposed to have made photographs of the Mormon trail when he lived in Utah, but none has survived or been found. After early stints as a daguerreotypist, he learned some photographic techniques from Carleton Watkins, and eventually made a series of stereoscopic Views of the Great West for the Union Pacific and Denver & Rio Grande Western railroads.