Sketch of circa 1840 Wagon Train at Independence Rock, Sweetwater River and Devil's Rock, Wyoming
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Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1840
Creators
Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890
Creator Notes
Photograph of a 1920-1930 sketch by William Henry Jackson, after an original circa 1840 sketch, probably by John Charles Fremont.
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On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
P.O.4171
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 7.313 in
Width: 10.125 in
Inscriptions
Typed sheet of paper adhered to back of image reads: INDEPENDENCE ROCK on Sweetwater River, 50 miles west of Caspar (sic), has been / aptly termed the "register of the Desert". At this place all the detouring / lines of the Oregon Trail converged to a single track and thousands of / trappers, explorers and emigrants inscribed their names on this rock in passing. / Independence Rock, on the Sweetwater River, Wyoming, fifty miles west of / Fort Caspar, with an emigrant train corralling for camp. Sketch by W.H. / Jackson, pioneer artist, copyright and published through courtesy of the / Oregon Trail Memorial Association.
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