North Platte - Public domain scenic drawing

Drawing shows two covered wagons being ferried across the Platte River in central Wyoming. A man stands on the far bank of the river, with a hook in one hand. In the distance, people have set up camp in three covered wagons and a tent. This camp may be near present-day Casper, Wyoming, where the Jenks would have joined the Oregon Trail. Jenks and his party arrived at camp 60 on Wednesday, June 8, 1859. He noted in his diary that they camped in a cottonwood grove.
Signed on wagon: DAJ.
Purchase, Ed Cox Americana fund (Madison Council), 2000 (DLC/PP-2001:050.10)
Published in: American women : a Library of Congress guide ... Washington : Library of Congress, 2001, p. 222.