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Title: [Illustration for poem] Bust!
Creator: Cary, W. M., engraver
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1858]
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: Illustration for poem by Richard Henry Stoddard. Scene following Indian attack. Covered wagon with "Pikes Peak or Bust" written on canvas stands idle; one oxen lays dead, other has arrows protruding from torso; legs of dead man (Jim Smith) extend from brush near wagon wheels; and various weapons lay abandoned on ground. Buffalo stands nearby as buzzards circle overhead.
Printed title (LC): Bust! W. M. Cary. Printed (LL, within image): W.M. Cary; (on wagon chassis, within image): Jim Smith.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: engraving
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf5x0nb777
BANC PIC 1963.002:0807--B
Subject: Animals
Arms & armaments
Bison
Cattle
Gold rushes
Vehicles
West (U.S.)

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