Papers, 1950.

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Papers, 1950.

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Notes prepared by a State Historical Society of Wisconsin Museum research associate concerning the identity of the artist responsible for a group of drawings sketched in 1849 on the Oregon Trail which had come into possession of the Society. Forrest explored the following possibilities: Osborne Cross, George Gibbs, Andrew Jackson Lindsay, and William Tappan.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Tappan, William T., 1943-

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Forrest, James, Rev.

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Gibbs, George, 1815-1873

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George Gibbs, a New York lawyer, joined the Regiment of Mounted Rifles in 1849, went to Fort Vancouver, Washington, and remained in the Pacific Northwest for the next eleven years. During that time he held a number of positions, including that of an ethnologist and geologist with the Northern Pacific segment of the U.S. Army railroad survey from 1853 to 1855, and the Northwest boundary survey of the Northwest Boundary Commission from 1857 to 1860. He wrote numerous works on Indian languages and ...

Cross, Osborne, 1803-1876

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Lindsay, Andrew Jackson, d. 1895.

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