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A Chief [standing on horseback] forbidding the passage of a [wagon] train through his country – Antique Wall Art

A Chief [standing on horseback] forbidding the passage of a [wagon] train through his country, 1874 — antique engraving
A Chief [standing on horseback] forbidding the passage of a [wagon] train through his country, 1874. Antique engraving from the Horses 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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Step back in time with A Chief [standing on horseback] forbidding the passage of a [wagon] train through his country, an antique engraving rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A chief on horseback bars the way for a wagon train in this 1874 wood engraving, and its title states that he is forbidding passage through his country. It appeared in Harper's Weekly on September 19, 1874, on page 773, in an illustrated weekly that brought images of the West to readers across the East. By the 1870s, wagon trains were crossing lands that Plains nations still held, and scenes like this shaped how those encounters were presented to a mostly white readership. The record's details come from older caption data, so read the scene as a period artist's interpretation.

Created / published1874
Medium1 print : wood engraving.
SubjectsIllus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1874 Sept. 19, p. 773. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Wagon trains; Indians--Relations with white men; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,217 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-131662

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