Drawing of the Kansas scenery on the Oregon Trail
Title
Drawing of the Kansas scenery on the Oregon Trail
Description
Drawing by Pherne Brown Pringle, the daughter of Tabitha Moffatt Brown, the 'Mother of Oregon.' This sketch features the scenery in Kansas, along the Blue Earth River, during her family's journey on the Oregon Trail. Copies of later drawings were accompanied in an album by journal entries of Pherne's husband, Virgil K. Pringle.
Virgil's journal indicates that their party passed through this area around May 17th:
'Our course this day was over hills running parallel with the Kansas; the morning cool; drove ahead till after two o'clock, it became very hot; several oxen overcome with the heat; stopped about three hours on a branch at the end of the Kansas bottom; country still very near a Kaw village. Mr. Barnard, while on guard, caught one attempting to steal our stock; made, by our reckoning, 20 miles.'
Virgil's journal indicates that their party passed through this area around May 17th:
'Our course this day was over hills running parallel with the Kansas; the morning cool; drove ahead till after two o'clock, it became very hot; several oxen overcome with the heat; stopped about three hours on a branch at the end of the Kansas bottom; country still very near a Kaw village. Mr. Barnard, while on guard, caught one attempting to steal our stock; made, by our reckoning, 20 miles.'
Creator
Pringle, Pherne Brown
Identifier
PUA_MS14_16.jpg
Rights
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Type
Still Image