Drawing
Wilkins 37: Ferry at Green River
| The Ferry at Green River in Wyoming; a single wagon is crossing the river. Sketched by Wilkins on his 151-day journey from Missouri to California on the Overland Trail (also known as the Oregon Trail). Wilkins writes in his diary: "We passed the ferry for a miracle without accident, a more crazy thing to call a boat I never saw. It required one man to bail all the time, while another at every trip kept stuffing in bits of rag. We had a great dispute about paying the full amount of ferage, which is still unsettled; the owner telling us if we would find a yoke of oxen to cordell the boat and otherwise assist, he would allow us for it, which afterwards he refused to do, but wanted the full amount." |
| Image ID: | 31546 |
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| Creation Date: | 07 22 1849 |
| Creator Name: | Wilkins, James F., d. 1888 |
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| State: | Wyoming |
| Collection Name: | James F. Wilkins Overland Trail drawings, 1849 |
| Genre: | Drawing |
| Original Format Type: | drawings |
| Original Format Number: | PH 374D.37 (5) |
| Original Dimensions: | 8.25 x 10 inches |
| Landscape |
| Ferries |
| Wagons |
| Rivers |
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