FORT LARAMIE, watercolor painting made ca
FORT LARAMIE, watercolor painting made ca. 1858-60 by Alfred Jacob Miller, from field-sketches made during his 1837 expedition to western Wyoming. These early sketches were made before the fort was torn down in 1840. Fort Laramie was established as a private fur trading post in1834, on an old north-south Indian trail near the Laramie Mountains in what is now southeast Wyoming. Miller made the only known eyewitness depictions of the exterior of the first Fort Laramie
Picture No
13125756
Media ID
45375910
Size
2700px x 1966px
(1.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
Source
Courtesy Everett Collection
