Title:
The Assiniboine [Indian] rescue Bucephalus [horse]
Creator/Contributor:
Cooper, J., engraver (engraver)
Leitch, R. P. (active ca. 1865), undetermined (undetermined)
Wilson, J. H. (active ca. 1865), undetermined (undetermined)
Date:
1865
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0502:12--A
Format:
print on paper mounted on board: engraving
10.5 x 17.3 cm., on mount 18.8 x 27.5 cm.
Content/Description:
Two pack horses caught in flooded river, as Indian wades through torrents attempting to rescue them. The second horse (named
Gisquakarn or 'The Fool') was eventually lost; Bucephalus survived.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Title from caption in book. Printed (LL, within image): J.H. Wilson et R.P. Leitch; (LR, within image): J. Cooper, sc. From
publication: The North-West passage by land (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1865), pg. 259.
Subjects:
Canada;
Expeditions & surveys;
Horses;
Indians of North America;
Rivers
Genre/Format:
Engravings;
Illustrations