Drawing of the departure from the Black Hills on the Oregon Trail
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Drawing of the departure from the Black Hills on the Oregon Trail
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Drawing by Pherne Brown Pringle, the daughter of Tabitha Moffatt Brown, the 'Mother of Oregon.' This sketch features the scenery after leaving the Black Hills in Wyoming, perhaps Laramie Peak, 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 they entered the Black Hills on 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 from this spring and encamped on the banks of a clear mountain stream; grass tolerable.'
Virgil's journal indicates that they entered the Black Hills on 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 from this spring and encamped on the banks of a clear mountain stream; grass tolerable.'
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