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 Americans on horseback in the distance; mountains and sky in the top half of the image
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Title from caption below image. and Below image: Entered by act of Congress A.D. 1868 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of N.Y.
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
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BEIN BrSides Zc10 862ta: On sheet 56.2 x 76.3, mounted on board of same dimensions., Title from printed caption below image., and 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.
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
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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., and 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.
Print depicts an unhorsed trapper beside his fallen horse; he is shooting a dismounted indigenous man who has a tomahawk raised in his right hand as he approaches the trapper. In the background, two horses, one riderless, grassland and sky; a little less than half the print shows the partly cloudy sky
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Title from printed caption below image. and Below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1858 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern Dist. of N.Y.
