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Title: [Covered wagon in the desert: emigrants tend to fallen oxen]
Creator: [Unknown]
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
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: Group of distressed emigrant men, women and children in process of crossing desert in covered wagon attend to oxen that have fallen; bones and human skull lying in foreground; mountains in distance.
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Type: image
Format: Painting on paper: watercolor and pencil 19.7 x 29 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf4199p1hz
BANC PIC 1963.002:0772--A
Subject: Animals
Cattle
Frontier & pioneer life
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Settlers
Vehicles
Westward movement
Women

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