Drawing of Fort Laramie
Title
Drawing of Fort Laramie
Description
Drawing by Pherne Brown Pringle, the daughter of Tabitha Moffatt Brown, the 'Mother of Oregon.' This sketch features Fort Laramie in Wyoming 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 the fort around June 24th:
'We deviated the usual route, on leaving the Fort, which is over the high lands between Platte and Larimie Fork; ours was up the Platte; traveled about 9 miles and intersected the old road at the spring, which is very bold and rather warm. We now enter the Black Hills; rose from a valley onto high, rolling prairie; went 6 miles mountain stream; grass tolerable.'
Virgil's journal indicates that their party passed the fort around June 24th:
'We deviated the usual route, on leaving the Fort, which is over the high lands between Platte and Larimie Fork; ours was up the Platte; traveled about 9 miles and intersected the old road at the spring, which is very bold and rather warm. We now enter the Black Hills; rose from a valley onto high, rolling prairie; went 6 miles mountain stream; grass tolerable.'
Creator
Pringle, Pherne Brown
Identifier
PUA_MS14_19.jpg
Rights
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Type
Still Image