Pikes Peak
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Scope Note: The Thesaurus of Geographic Names\World\continents\North and Central America\nations\United States\states\Colorado\counties\El Paso\peaks\
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript Collection: John Lowery Brown
Collection
Identifier: MC.1954.26
Collection Overview
Collection summary derived from "Guidebook to Manuscripts", 1969: Journal of John Lowery Brown (1779-1852), a Cherokee. He and a party of fellow tribesmen left Grand Saline (near Salina, Oklahoma) on April 20, 1850, for the gold fields of California. After suffering many hardships, the party arrived late in September. The last entry is November 10, 1850. This journal is in English. A transcript with notes is printed in Vol. XII of the Chronicles of Oklahoma (Oklahoma Historical Society,...
Dates:
1850
Pikes Peak or Bust, late 19th century - early 20th century
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8158.13
Description
Print of an illustration of a covered wagon pulled by an ox encountering a buffalo on the plains. Second ox dead and man lying near wagon.
Dates:
late 19th century - early 20th century
Typed transcription of original handwritten letter from Thomas Moran to his wife, Mary Nimmo, written while on the Platte River, August 11, 1874
Item — Folder 89: [Barcode: 150.89]
Identifier: 3836.793
Description
Curatorial Remarks
Folder 89
Curatorial Remarks
The letter is published in Bassford, Amy O., ed. with introduction and notes by Fritiof M. Fryxell. Home-thoughts, from afar: Letters of Thomas Moran to Mary Nimmo Moran. East Hampton, NY: East Hampton Library, 1967, pg. 47.
Sandra Pauly, Luce Curatorial Scholar of American Art, 2022
Dates:
August 11, 1874