Covered Wagon Gallery

Oregon Trail pioneers passing Chimney Rock

Covered wagons passing Chimney Rock, a landmark on the Oregon Trail, Nebraska.
Hand-colored woodcut combined with a photograph of Chimney Rock

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Georgetown, Maryland, now part of Washington DC, about 1810

Potomac River waterfront in old Georgetown, upriver from Washington DC, early 1800s.
Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

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Guide leading a wagon train to the Platte River onf the Oregon Trail.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by Frederic Remington

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