Sunday April 3d 1859 - Public domain portrait print

Drawing shows a man, facing left, wrapped in a blanket and trudging through snow on the Great Plains, perhaps in far eastern Kansas on the Santa Fe trail. Daniel Jenks wrote in his diary at Camp No. 5 - 110 Creek, Sunday, April 3, 1859, "I pushed on ahead of the teams [in the snow] reached a log cabin which prov[ed] to be a mail station."
Signed lower right: DAJ.
Purchase, Ed Cox Americana fund (Madison Council), 2000 (DLC/PP-2001:050.1)