Research Catalog

Title

Pageant of the pioneers : the veritable art of William H. Jackson "picture maker of the Old West" / by Clarence S. Jackson.

Author

Jackson, Clarence S.

Publication

• Minden, Neb. : Harold Warp Pioneer Village, [1958]
• ©1958

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Details

Additional Authors

Jackson, William H.

Description

4 unnumbered pages, 89 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), portraits; 29 cm

Summary

Pictorial history of the West with stimulating action and clever composition - a brochure by a son directing attention to the work of his father, William Henry Jackson, as an artist of the old West.

Subject

• 1848-1945
• Travel
• West (U.S.) > Description and travel
• West (U.S.) > History > 1848-1860 > Pictorial works
• West (U.S.) > History > 1860-1890 > Pictorial works
• West (U.S.) > History > 1890-1945 > Pictorial works
• West United States

Genre/Form

• Pictorial works
• Illustrated works
• History
• Illustrated works.
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Note

• Includes reproductions of sketches, drawings and paintings.

Contents

Illustrations: Pioneer trails and scenes of the central Rocky Mountain Region [picture-map] -- Day dreams / William Henry Jackson, 1866 -- Caddie Eastman [daguerreotype] -- Reminiscences / William Henry Jackson, 1866 -- Old Fort Kearny, Nebraska -- Shooting buffalo from ambush -- Ed Owens, 1866, wagon boss from Nebraska City -- Pony express rider of 1861 -- Changing horses [pony express, Pumpkinseed Relay Station] -- Heading into a blizzard [pony express] -- Fording the North Platte at Red Buttes [pony express, Bessemer Bend] -- "There he goes" [pony express] -- "Here he comes" [pony express] -- A pony express rider passing a wagon train [pony express, Chimney Rock region of the North Platte Valley, Nebraska] -- A pony express rider passing outpost of telegraph construction -- Red Buttes pony express and stage station -- Far into the night [pony express rider] -- Indian Ford of the River Jordan, [Utah] [pony express rider] -- A pony express rider reaches safety -- Indian ambush [pony express rider near Fish Springs, Utah] -- Handcart pioneers -- "This is the place" -- Corral on the Sweetwater River at Split Rock, Wyo. -- Red Buttes, Wyoming -- Devil's Gate, Wyoming -- A surprise attack -- Platte Bridge Battle, 1865 -- Pony express rider nearing Lake Tahoe, Nevada -- Chief Washakie's tent -- Deer Creek Station -- Three Crossings Station, Wyoming -- St. [Saint] Mary's Station for pony express, Wyoming -- Sweetwater Station, Wyoming -- South Pass Station -- Virginia Dale Station, Colorado -- Rendezvous -- Wind River Mountains from the Sandy [River] -- Camp under the Tetons -- Pioneer transportation in the West -- "Big Medicine Road" -- A family of Bannacks (Sheep Eaters) -- Wagon train approaching Red Buttes Station (located at Bessemer Bend on the North Platte River in Wyoming) -- Old Fort Bridger -- Old Fort Laramie -- Old Fort Hall, Idaho (Nat [Nathaniel] Wyeth's Post) -- Red Springs, Wyoming -- The Oregon Trail beyond Devil's Gate, Wyoming -- Mountain men have "medicine talk" with Nez Perce Indians -- A party of trappers discover the geysers in the Yellowstone Region -- Sacajawea meeting her people -- Wyoming wonderland -- A perilous passage for man and beast on the rim of Teton Canyon -- The Chisholm Trail -- Hayden Survey on the shore of Yellowstone Lake, 1871 -- Returning Astorians -- Collecting wild horses outside Los Angeles, April, 1867, to be driven east over the Santa Fe Trail to Julesburg, Colorado, for use on the U.P.R.R. [Union Pacific Railroad] -- Swimming 150 wild horses across the Green River in Wyoming -- South Pass, Wyoming -- The summit of Independence Rock, Wyoming (here, in 1866, William H. Jackson adds his initials to the names of many pioneers on this celebrated rock.) -- Night corral at Independence Rock (in 1840, Father De Smet found names engraved on it and added his own, saying, "It might be called the great registry of the desert.") -- Mormon handcart pioneers of 1856 (on the plains of Wyoming) -- Now the day is over -- "Picture Maker of the old West" / Charles S. Jackson -- King Survey, 1867-69 -- Wheeler Survey, 1873-75 -- Powell Survey, 1969-1972 -- Hayden Survey, 1871 -- [Hayden party at Mesa Verde] -- Hayden Survey of 1874 ... Mancos Canyon -- William Henry Jackson bronze plaque / Mahonri [Mackintosh] Young.

LCCN

a 59003559

OCLC

• ocm02666782
• 2666782
• SCSB-650266

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library