Pioneers 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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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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Pioneer woman cooking outside a log cabin

Pioneer woman cooking outside a log cabin on the banks of the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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