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[Lanford Warren Hastings, facing slightly right, bust] – Historic Reproduction

[Lanford Warren Hastings, facing slightly right, bust] — historic print
[Lanford Warren Hastings, facing slightly right, bust]. Historic print 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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[Lanford Warren Hastings, facing slightly right, bust]

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This bust portrait shows Lanford Warren Hastings, turned slightly to the right, though the caption card records no date. Hastings was an Ohio-born lawyer whose 1845 guidebook, *The Emigrants' Guide to Oregon and California*, encouraged American settlers to head west. He is best remembered for promoting a shortcut across the Great Basin, the Hastings Cutoff, which he advertised to emigrant parties in 1846. That route became linked to the Donner Party's disastrous winter in the Sierra Nevada, and it shaped how many later readers judged his role in westward migration.

Medium1 item.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,229 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-121697

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