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Title: A check: "Keep your distance!"
Creator: Tait, A. F. (active ca. 1862), artist Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888), American, lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: c1853
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Trapper wearing buckskin on horseback aims rifle at Indians in distance; another trapper drives pack animals away from scene. Plains setting.
Printed title (LC). Printed [LL]: Painted by A.F. Tait; (LC): Entered... 1853 by N. Currier... New York; (LR): Lith. of N. Currier, N[ew] Y[ork]; (LC, below title): Published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau St[reet], New York.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 46.4 x 63.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf2580078x
BANC PIC 1963.002:0804--D
Subject: Animals
Frontier & pioneer life
Fur trade
Horses
Hunting
West (U.S.)

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