Drawing
Wilkins 50: Steam Boat Springs
| Steam Boat Springs in Idaho; 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 on August 3rd: "But the greatest curiosity was what is called the steam boat spring...close to the banks of the river. rising from a hole in the rock, the gass rises thro' this with such fury, as to make the water rise sometimes 4 or 5 ft high....the gas (carbonic acid gass) hisses like steam from a boiler, hence the name- -" |
| Image ID: | 31685 |
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| Creation Date: | 08 03 1849 |
| Creator Name: | Wilkins, James F., d. 1888 |
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| State: | Idaho |
| Collection Name: | Wilkins, James F., -1888 : James F. Wilkins Overland Trail drawings, 1849 |
| Genre: | Drawing |
| Original Format Type: | drawings |
| Original Format Number: | PH 374D.50 (5) |
| Original Dimensions: | 8.25x10 inches |
| Landscape |
| Mountains |
| Rivers |
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