View of a U shaped building and a stockade with horses at Fort Mitchell in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. People gather around a campfire near a covered wagon. Cavalry troops ride toward a pack train on the Oregon Trail. A wagon train and Scotts Bluff (later Scotts Bluff National Monument) are in the distance. A North American Indian encampment is beside the North Platte River.
Date
1933
Notes
"No. 16" inked on verso.; Photographic print of a watercolor by William Henry Jackson, from the William Henry Jackson Collection at Scotts Bluff National Monument, hand colored by Clarence S. Jackson.; Title penciled on mat board.; R7003106156
Description
1 photographic print : hand col. ; 24 x 34 cm. (9 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.) mounted on mat board 41 x 51 cm. (16 x 20 in.)
Is Part Of
Denver Public Library Western Art Collection.
Subject
Fort Mitchell (Neb.)--1860-1870.; North Platte River--1860-1870.; Oregon National Historic Trail--1860-1870.; Scotts Bluff National Monument (Neb.)--1860-1870.; Scottsbluff (Neb.)--1860-1870.; Cavalry--Nebraska--Fort Mitchell--1860-1870.; Forts & fortifications--Nebraska--Fort Mitchell--1860-1870.; Pack trains--Nebraska--Fort Mitchell--1860-1870.; Rivers--Nebraska--Fort Mitchell--1860-1870.; Wagon trains--Nebraska--Fort Mitchell--1860-1870.; Watercolors--1930-1940.; Westward movement--Nebraska--Fort Mitchell--1860-1870.
Source
Clarence S. Jackson; purchase; 1954.
Rights Statement
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