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| Date: | 05 27 1849 |
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| Description: | The wagon train crossing Laramie Creek in Wyoming. |
| Date: | 10 1852 |
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| Description: | Landscape view of the river looking downstream from Fort Snelling, Minnesota Territory. An expanse of placid river water fills the center of the drawing an... |
| Date: | 06 24 1849 |
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| Description: | Original wash drawing of Fort Laramie, Wyoming (actually Fort John; see note below). Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California... |
| Date: | 1834 |
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| Description: | Peck-a-ton-oka (Pecatonica River) with Rodolf farm in the background. |
| Date: | 03 1892 |
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| Description: | Three men are dragging their canoe upriver through a strong current. In the background other men are standing on the far river bank near canoes pulled up o... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of voyageurs making a portage from an article on "The Honorable Hudson Bay Company" from Harpers Monthly in 1879. |
| Date: | 02 21 1874 |
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| Description: | African American boatmen run a rapids in a small river boat. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Sketch of the Fox River, a train, the mill, a warehouse, and a steamboat. |
| Date: | 07 03 1849 |
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| Description: | Wilkins' wagons ferrying across the North Platte River in eastern Wyoming; sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Ov... |
| Date: | 05 02 1849 |
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| Description: | The ferry landing in Weston, Missouri; Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oreg... |
| Date: | 05 17 1849 |
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| Description: | The ferry at Nodaway, Missouri; Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon Trai... |
| Date: | 05 1849 |
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| Description: | Wilkins' wagon procession crossing a creek in Missouri; Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also ... |
| Date: | 07 22 1849 |
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| Description: | The Ferry at Green River in Wyoming; a single wagon is crossing the river. Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Ov... |
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| Description: | View of a fort with fortified walls and a flag flying from the fort. A river runs on the right of the image. A boat with sails floats on the river. Sold... |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | Several men rowing in a boat near Fort Howard that has an American Flag, barracks, and various related military buildings enclosed behind a wall. |
| Date: | 06 13 1849 |
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| Description: | Wagon train crossing the South Platte River in Nebraska; Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | View looking southeast over river from Elmore and Kelly's Elevator. |
| Date: | 03 13 1862 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks of the gunboat "Cinncinati" guarding Union approaches to Cairo on the Ohio River. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Four boats shown. One is a repair boat and the other two the gunboats "Cincinnatti" [sic] and "Lexington." There is a steamboat marked "Marie Denin"... |
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| Description: | The "Essex" (New Era) transformed into a gunboat, at anchor. Next to it is a smaller boat. |
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