Pioneers Gallery

Oregon Trail covered wagons

Restored covered wagons (Conestoga wagon at rear), at Scotts Bluff National Monument on the Oregon Trail in Nebraska.
Digital photograph

© N.Carter/North Wind Picture Archives

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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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Colonists arriving on Roanoke Island, 1585

Landing of first English settlers on Roanoke Island under Richard Grenville, 1585.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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