Cherokee Pass, Rocky Mountains - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows a dirt trail among pine trees leading toward a heavily forested pass between snow-capped mountains. This pass, near present-day Ft. Collins, Colorado, heads north toward the Oregon and California Trail. This was camp 59 for Jenks' party on Tuesday, June 7, 1859. He wrote of that day's camp, "Our wagons had to be chained to keep them in their places, the hillside was so steep."
Signed left center lower margin: DAJ 1859.
Exhibited in: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2004.
Purchase, Ed Cox Americana fund (Madison Council), 2000 (DLC/PP-2001:050.8)