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Title: Life on the prairie: the trapper's defence [sic] "Fire fight fire"
Creator: Tait, A. F. (active ca. 1862), artist Currier & Ives (active 1857-1907), American, lithographer and publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: c1862
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: Trappers create backfire and hold frightened horses as wildfire surrounds them; buffalo stampede in distance; pelts and shotguns in foreground.
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Painted by A.F. Tait; (LC, above title): Entered... 1862 by Currier & Ives...New York.(LC, below title): New York, Published by Currier & Ives, 115 Nassau Street; (LR): Lith. Currier & Ives N[ew] Y[ork].
Type: image
Format: Print on paper: lithograph, hand colored 55.7 x 77.3 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf7v19p4fj
BANC PIC 1963.002:1527--FR
Subject: Animals
Bison
Fires
Fur trade
Horses
Hunting

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