Title:
Crossing the plains
Creator/Contributor:
Baker, George Holbrook (1827-1906), American, artist (artist)
Barber & Baker (active ca. 1855), publisher (publisher)
Date:
1853
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0023--A
Format:
print on tinted paper: engraving
28.1 x 22.7 cm., sheet
Content/Description:
Thirteen images: emigrant train passing Wind River mountains, Wyoming; Indians chasing buffalo, Scott's Bluffs, Nebraska;
first night on plains; scene on desert; driving stock across plains; Sioux Indians; Court House Rock and Chimney Rock, Colorado;
Laramie Peak, Wyoming; California Indians; mouth of Ash Hollow, Nebraska; Devil's Gate, Nevada; and Castle Rock, Colorado.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (UC). Printed (UC, below title): Views drawn from nature, in 1853, by George H. Baker; (LC): Published by Barber
& Baker, Sacramento, copywright [sic] secured. Each image captioned.
Subjects:
Animals;
Bison;
Camping;
Colorado;
Cowboys;
Frontier & pioneer life;
Hunting;
Indians of North America;
Mountains;
Nebraska;
Nevada;
Overland journeys to the Pacific;
Settlers;
Vehicles;
Westward movement;
Wyoming
Genre/Format:
Engravings;
Landscapes;
Pictorial lettersheets