Drawing
Wilkins 42: Fort Bridger
| Fort Bridger in Wyoming, with wagon parts and teepees, where Wilkins camped for a night; 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: "Camped near Fort Bridger this evening. This is merely a few log houses built in a square and it is a trading post belonging to the American Fur Company. A few goods are kept for sale here at most exorbitant prices 25 cents for a small box of matches and 25 cents for a drink of whiskey. There are here 20 or 30 families of mountaineers principally Canadian-French married to Indian women and living in tents of skins." |
| Image ID: | 31549 |
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| Creation Date: | 07 25 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.42 (5) |
| Original Dimensions: | 8.25 x 10 inches |
| tipi tepee |
| Landscape |
| Buildings |
| Fortification |
| Wagons |
| Tents |
| Ethnic architecture |
| Tipis |
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