View of a large contingent of horses, riders, and wagons making their way across a vast plain as part of George Armstrong Custer's expedition of 1874. Many of the men wear military uniforms.
Dakota Indians--War--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--War--1870-1880.; Covered wagons--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--1870-1880.; Horseback riding--1870-1880.; Soldiers--1870-1880.; Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876--Military service.
Views of U.S. Army General Miles' campaign against the Native American Sioux, show long covered wagon trains, buffalo herds, and soldiers in uniforms drinking and washing in a river next to their horses.
Dakota Indians--War--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--War--1870-1880.; Bathing--1870-1880.; Bison--1870-1880.; Covered wagons--1870-1880.
A horse-drawn covered wagon stops on a dirt road between buttes on a wide open prairie in either Fremont County, Idaho, or Beaverhead County, Montana. Gear sits on the ground by the wagon; riders stand near their horses, mountains are in the far...
Red Rock Pass (Mont. and Idaho)--1870-1880.; Buttes--1870-1880.; Covered wagons--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--Idaho--Idaho County--1870-1880.; Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
Members of the Hayden Expedition team dip for water in a river, possibly Blacks Fork River near Church Butte in Uinta (Unitah) County, Wyoming. Shows the expedition camp site with tents and covered wagons.
Camping--1870-1880.; Covered wagons--1870-1880.; Expeditions & surveys--1870-1880.; Rivers--1870-1880.; Tents--1870-1880.; Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
Men hunt American buffalo with rifles on the prairie in Kansas. Shows a wounded buffalo and a buffalo herd. Men cook buffalo meat over a fire at a camp. Shows covered wagons and strips of meat left out to dry.
Weary pioneers rest in front of two Conestoga wagons on a plain with mountains in the background. Family includes an adult male, 3 adult females, and 4 children.
An oil painting of a covered wagon on a prairie landscape under a gray sky. Two oxen stand by, a body of a dead man lies on the ground next to the wagon. The words: "Pikes Peak or bust" are written on the wagon cover. The frame is gilded, gessoed...
Covered wagons--1870-1880.; Dead persons--1870-1880.; Ox teams--1870-1880.