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Title: The Assiniboine [Indian] rescue Bucephalus [horse]
Creator: Cooper, J., engraver Leitch, R. P. (active ca. 1865), undetermined Wilson, J. H. (active ca. 1865), undetermined
Date Created and/or Issued: 1865
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: Two pack horses caught in flooded river, as Indian wades through torrents attempting to rescue them. The second horse (named Gisquakarn or 'The Fool') was eventually lost; Bucephalus survived.
Title from caption in book. Printed (LL, within image): J.H. Wilson et R.P. Leitch; (LR, within image): J. Cooper, sc. From publication: The North-West passage by land (London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1865), pg. 259.
Type: image
Format: Print on paper mounted on board: engraving 10.5 x 17.3 cm., on mount 18.8 x 27.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf658010kw
BANC PIC 1963.002:0502:12--A
Subject: Canada
Expeditions & surveys
Horses
Indians of North America
Rivers

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