Drawing
Wilkins 44: Bear River Peaks
| Bear River Peaks in Utah; sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon Trail). Wilkins writes in his diary: "We crossed yesterday the dividing ridge between Green River and Bear River Valley. The day proved windy and smoky, so that our view from the summit was somewhat marred. This is the highest ridge in the route except the Sierra Nevada. The country seemed a succession of ridges or high hills generally bare of vegetation on the crowns, with short brown bunch grass on the sides, while the valleys meandering here and there between the hills had a line of more brillinat green. This monotony was broken in places by patches of Cedar trees in the ravines and steep slope. Sometimes a hill would be cut in two as it rose and one half carried off. The precipice presented in this case either rock or a steep sandy slope. These faded away in the distance, till the rugged outlines could be seen one over another like waves, while the base was lost in azure." |
| Image ID: | 31551 |
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| Creation Date: | 07 31 1849 |
| Creator Name: | Wilkins, James F., d. 1888 |
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| State: | Utah |
| Collection Name: | James F. Wilkins Overland Trail drawings, 1849 |
| Genre: | Drawing |
| Original Format Type: | drawings |
| Original Format Number: | PH 374D.44 (5) |
| Original Dimensions: | 8.25 x 10 inches |
| Flowers |
| Trees |
| Landscape |
| Mountains |
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