Shooting buffalo from the trains of the Kansas Pacific Railroad – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique engraving of Shooting buffalo from the trains of the Kansas Pacific Railroad brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Shooting buffalo from the trains of the Kansas Pacific Railroad
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Travelers firing on bison from a Kansas Pacific Railroad train is the scene this wood engraving depicts. It appeared in *Harper's Weekly* in 1867, the New York illustrated weekly that brought frontier scenes to eastern readers, at a time when the railroad was pushing across Kansas and bison herds still ranged widely over the plains. Shooting from trains like this helped drive the collapse of the bison population in the following decade, a loss the engraving presents as ordinary entertainment for passengers.
| Created / published | 1867 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Subjects | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 2 (1867), p. 792. (Microfilm reproduction, original volume not available). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: West--Railroads; Railroads--Misc.; Artists, Publ. I.; Bison; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,154 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136411 |
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