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.
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.
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: ZZR700310633
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
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