Foreword / Alan Wallach -- Curator's foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- [pt.] 1. American years -- 1. Apprentice artist in a competitive field -- 2. Artist-explorer of the West -- 3. "Poor Munger" : painting for scientists and connoisseurs -- [pt.] 2. European recognition -- 4. Expatriate landscape painter -- 5. Variation on a Barbizon theme -- [pt.] 3. Long years of separation -- 6. Uncertain return -- 7. No living for a good landscape painter -- 8. Aftermath -- appendix 1. The Munger autograph -- appendix 2. The Munger timeline -- Endnotes -- Index