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[Pocatello, Idaho land rush, 1903: mule-drawn covered wagons on move] – Antique Wall Art

[Pocatello, Idaho land rush, 1903: mule-drawn covered wagons on move] — historic photograph
[Pocatello, Idaho land rush, 1903: mule-drawn covered wagons on move]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 rare historic photograph captures [Pocatello, Idaho land rush, 1903: mule-drawn covered wagons on move] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Pocatello, Idaho land rush, 1903: mule-drawn covered wagons on move]

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The title places this wagon train near Pocatello, a railroad town in southeastern Idaho, though the record offers few other particulars. In 1903 the area was drawing settlers after land from the Fort Hall Indian Reservation was opened to homesteading, and many families reached their claims in covered wagons pulled by mules. Wagons like these had carried earlier generations along the Oregon Trail, so the scene shows an older style of overland travel still in use in the early twentieth century.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1903
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Idaho; Covered wagons; West--Land rush; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,459 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-127957

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