Print by John Cameron depicts, in the left foreground, two trappers with horses and pack animals waiting and watching on guard; in the middle ground, a trapper and a Native American ride toward each other to talk; in the background, more Native Americ...
Print depicts a herd of bison on the Great Plains; several bison face the viewer in the foreground; grassland swells into low hills in middle-and back-ground; filled with bison; the top half of the image is sky
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 862ha: State before title and imprint letters.
The Edwin James letterbook consists of letters to his brother John from 1819 to 1825. The letters chronicle Edwin James's appointment as doctor, geologist, and botanist with Stephen Long's 1820 expedition to the Rocky Mountains. The letters describe ...
Description:
Edwin James (1797-1861), naturalist, specializing in geology, explorer, doctor in the United States Army.
Subject (Geographic):
United States., Fort Crawford (Wis.), Great Plains, Missouri, Ohio River Valley, Prairie du Chien (Wis.), United States, and West (U.S.)
Subject (Name):
James, Edwin, 1797-1861., James, John, fl. 1797-1825., Reed, Silas, 1807-1886., Long, Stephen H. 1784-1864. (Stephen Harriman),, and Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe, 1793-1864.
Subject (Topic):
Geology, Description and travel, and Discovery and exploration
Approximately 80 items which were originally housed in accompanying scrapbook: pamphlets, leaflets, applications forms, forms of receipt and other documents printed by the American Colonization Company and its successor bodies. Also pamphlets, prospec...
Description:
Henry Franklin Shearman was involved with several land companies (including the American Railway Securities and Land Agency, the North American Land Association, and the Minnesota Land and Farming Company) that encouraged English investment in the Ame...
Subject (Geographic):
Canada., Great Plains., Australia, Tasmania., West (U.S.), Canada, England, Great Plains, and Tasmania
Subject (Name):
Ford, William Wilbraham, b. 1846., Shearman, Henry Franklin., American Colonization Company., American Land Association., American Railway Securities and Land Agency., Ford & Co., Ford, Rathbone & Walter (Firm), H.F. Shearman & Co., Iowa and Minnesota Land and Farming Company., Minnesota Land & Emigration Company., Minnesota Land and Farming Company., North American Land Association., and W.W. Ford & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural laborers, Agriculture, Land companies, Emigration and immigration, and History
Approximately 80 items which were originally housed in accompanying scrapbook: pamphlets, leaflets, applications forms, forms of receipt and other documents printed by the American Colonization Company and its successor bodies. Also pamphlets, prospec...
Description:
Henry Franklin Shearman was involved with several land companies (including the American Railway Securities and Land Agency, the North American Land Association, and the Minnesota Land and Farming Company) that encouraged English investment in the Ame...
Subject (Geographic):
Canada., Great Plains., Australia, Tasmania., West (U.S.), Canada, England, Great Plains, and Tasmania
Subject (Name):
Ford, William Wilbraham, b. 1846., Shearman, Henry Franklin., American Colonization Company., American Land Association., American Railway Securities and Land Agency., Ford & Co., Ford, Rathbone & Walter (Firm), H.F. Shearman & Co., Iowa and Minnesota Land and Farming Company., Minnesota Land & Emigration Company., Minnesota Land and Farming Company., North American Land Association., and W.W. Ford & Co.
Subject (Topic):
Agricultural laborers, Agriculture, Land companies, Emigration and immigration, and History
Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait that depicts a trapper on horseback holding a long gun, looking down at a Indigenous man who has been shot and unhorsed from his mount. The fallen man props himself up with one hand and raises his right hand to...
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 856mc: On sheet 52 x 73 cm.
Publisher:
Published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, Frontier and pioneer life, and Wars
Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait in a lithograph by Louis Maurer for Currier & Ives; it depicts trappers pursuing in combat Indigenous persons on horseback. In the foreground, one pair of riders; a trapper, on saddled roan mount, wearing hat a...
Description:
Title from printed caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, and Frontier and pioneer life
Print reproduces a 1905 painting by Remington called 'The smoke signal' that depicts three Crow Native American men with three horses, one roan, one black, and one white with a red right hand print (as a brand) on its left buttock and a bird's feather...
Publisher:
Reproduced by the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago by permission of the copyright owner, the Remington Art Memorial
Subject (Topic):
Crow Indians, Indians of North America, Great Plains, and West (U.S.)
