View of Fort Bridger on the Oregon Trail in Uinta County, Wyoming. Shows a stockade with log buildings and another with horses. A wagon train is camped in a circle near the Blacks Fork river. Horses and oxen graze nearby. A Conestoga wagon fords the river. Native Americans on horseback and horses with travois are near the fort. A group of tepees is in the distance.
Date
[between 1932 and 1938?]
Notes
"No. 34" 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.; R7003106334
Physical Description
1 photographic print : hand col. ; 23 x 34 cm. (9 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
Indians of North America--Wyoming--Fort Bridger--1850-1870.; Blacks Fork (Utah and Wyo.)--1850-1870.; Fort Bridger (Wyo.)--1850-1870.; Fort Bridger State Historic Site (Fort Bridger, Wyo.)--1850-1870.; Oregon National Historic Trail--1850-1870.; Uinta County (Wyo.)--1850-1870.; Covered wagons--Wyoming--Fort Bridger--1850-1870.; Forts & fortifications--Wyoming--Fort Bridger--1850-1870.; Indian encampments--Wyoming--Fort Bridger--1850-1870.; Rivers--Wyoming--Fort Bridger--1850-1870.; Wagon trains--Wyoming--Fort Bridger--1850-1870.; Watercolors--1930-1940.; Westward movement--Wyoming--Fort Bridger--1850-1870.
Source
Clarence S. Jackson; purchase; 1954.
Rights
Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
Reproduction Available for Purchase
Contact WHG staff for availability of digital reproductions at: Photosales@denverlibrary.org
