Pioneers Gallery

Building the railroad to Bismarck, North Dakota, 1870s

Laying railroad track in winter across the Missouri River at Bismarck, North Dakota, 1879.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Oregon Trail covered wagons

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

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Starving colonists at Jamestown

Jamestown colonists dealing out the last kernels of corn during the Starving Time, 1609-1610.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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