A wagon train travels over Mitchell Pass on the Oregon Trail in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska (later Scotts Bluff National Monument.) A man on horseback, and a wagon master with a bull whip, are near a Conestoga wagon pulled by twelve oxen. Eagle Rock is in the distance.
Description
1 photographic print : hand col. ; 22 x 34 cm. (8 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
Type of Material
Photographic prints--Hand col.; Imaged.; Image
Subject
Eagle Rock (Neb.)--1850-1870.; Mitchell Pass (Neb.)--1850-1870.; Oregon National Historic Trail--1850-1870.; Scotts Bluff County (Neb.)--1850-1870.; Scotts Bluff National Monument (Neb.)--1850-1870.; Horseback riding--Nebraska--Scotts Bluff County--1850-1870.; Ox teams--Nebraska--Scotts Bluff County--1850-1870.; Passes (Landforms)--Nebraska--Scotts Bluff County--1850-1870.; Rock formations--Nebraska--Scotts Bluff County--1850-1870.; Wagon trains--Nebraska--Scotts Bluff County--1850-1870.; Watercolors--1930-1940.; Westward movement--Nebraska--Scotts Bluff County--1850-1870.
Format-Medium
Art; Photograph;
Source
Clarence S. Jackson; purchase; 1954.
Rights Contact Information
Copyright restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History and Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library, at photosales@denverlibrary.org.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Yes (digital reproduction)
Related Material
Image File: ZZR700310617
Notes
"No. 18" 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.; R7003106172
Filename
00310617.TIF
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