Life on the prairie : the trapper's defence [sic], "Fire fight fire"

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Title: Life on the prairie : the trapper's defence [sic], "Fire fight fire"
Creator: Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam, 1819-1905, artist
Contributor: Currier & Ives, publisher.
Published / Created: c1862.
Publication Place: New York and United States New York (State) New York
Publisher: Currier & Ives
Abstract: Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait that depicts three trappers (with their horses) fighting a prairie fire. One man works to calm the horses while the others build a backfire to prevent the fire from burning out of control. In the background, a herd of bison stampedes away from the oncoming flames
Description: BEIN BrSides Zc10 862ta: On sheet 56.2 x 76.3, mounted on board of same dimensions.
Title from printed caption below image.
Text below image: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1862 by Currier & Ives in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Lith. Currier & Ives, N.Y.
Extent: 1 print : 55.7 x 78 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Lithographs
Material: lithograph, hand colored ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): West (U.S.)
West United States.
Subject (Topic): Trappers
Grassland fires
Subjects: Trappers > West (U.S.) > Pictorial works
Grassland fires > West (U.S.) > Pictorial works
Grassland fires
Trappers
West United States

Access: Public
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