Taking the back track : a dangerous neighborhood

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Title: Taking the back track : a dangerous neighborhood
Creator: Cameron, James, 1817-1882, artist
Contributor: Currier & Ives engraver, publisher.
Published / Created: [1866]
Copyright Date: ©1866
Publication Place: New York and United States New York (State) New York
Publisher: Published by Currier & Ives
Abstract: Lithograph reproduces a painting by James Cameron that depicts a small party of trappers of with horses and with pack mules hiding near a rocky, tree-topped hill to avoid being seen by a large group of indigenous persons approaching them on horseback in the tall grass of the middle-ground
Description: BEIN BrSides Zc10 866ca: On verso: Manuscript instructions for matting; manuscript notes: Sir John Hesketh Lethbridge from his dear son, "Albert." Ottawa, Canada West. Framed by W. Lee, Barnstaple, in 1871.
Title from caption below image.
Signature of Cameron within image.
Below image: Entered by act of Congress AD 1866 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of N.Y.
Extent: 1 print : 44 x 67 cm, on sheet 55 x 78 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Lithographs
Material: hand colored ;, paper, ink, lithography, and single sided
Resource Type: still image and text
Subject (Geographic): West (U.S.)
Trappers
Subject (Topic): Indians of North America
Subjects: Indians of North America > West (U.S.) > Pictorial works
Trappers > West (U.S.) > Pictorial works
West (U.S.) > Pictorial works

Access: Public
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