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Drawing

Wilkins 19: Fording Laramie Creek

Date: 05 27 1849
Description: The wagon train crossing Laramie Creek in Wyoming.
Drawing

Wilkins 18: Fort Laramie

Date: 06 24 1849
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...
Photograph

Camp Travis

Date: 1918
Description: A man stands in front of a Holt Caterpillar tractor at Camp Travis, named in 1917. The tractor pulls a train of wagons on a dirt path. Several men work in ...
Photograph

Three Views of the Indian Massacre

Date: 1862
Description: A composite of three views showing the siege of New Ulm on August 19 during the Indian Massacre of 1862. The lower left view depicts wagons and horses on a...
Photograph

Rapid Transit

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Description: View of oxen-drawn wagons along the Indian River.
Photograph

Ox Team

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Description: View uphill of a team of oxen with a wagon stacked with lumber. In the background, men gather outside a general store located in the Raton Mountains, betwe...
Photograph

Stagecoach and Wagon Train

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Description: View from field of a stagecoach and a wagon train meeting on a trail in British Columbia, Canada.
Map or Atlas

Map of Lakes and Resorts of Central Wisconsin

Date: 1904
Description: A map that shows the location of the lakes and resorts in northeastern Wisconsin that were reachable by the Chicago and North Western Railway. Shown in the...
Photograph

Denniston Avenue

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Description: View down Denniston Avenue. On the left side behind a long row of fences along the sidewalk are dwellings and a church. On the right side dwellings are alo...
Map or Atlas

Old Oregon Trail

Date: 1948
Description: This illustrated map shows major westward trails from 1785 to 1866: Old Oregon Trail and its deviations, Old Spanish Trail, Lewis and Clark route, Santa Fe...
Map or Atlas

Old Oregon Territory 1848

Date: 1948
Description: This map shows routes of the Old Oregon, Lewis and Clark, Barlow Road, Applegate, Fremont, and Haches Pass trails. Rivers, lakes, and mountains are labeled...
Print

Call of the West

Date: 1851
Description: Engraved view of a wagon train heading into Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Photograph

Horse-Drawn Wagon Carrying a Duck Boat

Date: 1904
Description: A horse-drawn wagon is carrying a clinker-built duck boat and two men, with their backs to the camera, on a dirt path through the woods to Archibald Lake.
Postcard

Maple Avenue

Date: 10 28 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Maple Ave., Sawyer, Wis." A view of an unpaved street with a church and other buildings on the right. On the left is a path, fence an...

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