The Weaving Welshman
Prints Reproduced
from the Original
Mid-Nineteenth Century Engravings
Both prints, which depict early life in the Far West, are printed on antique-style heavy cover-weight paper with generous borders for framing.
Image Size Approx 14" X 21"
Fur Traders on the Missouri Attacked by Indians
Originally published in 1868
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Product Code: PR0001
$19.99
Early California Settlers
Originally published in 1856
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Product Code: PR0002
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Product Code: PR01-2
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Fur Traders on the Missouri Attacked by Indians was originally engraved by W. M. Cary and was first published in 1868 in Harpers Weekly.
This early print depicts Rocky Mountain trappers taking their beaver furs packs wraped in Buffalo hide and baled back to St. Louis by Keelboat during the heyday of the Rocky Mountain fur trade. Dressed in buckskins, and armed with flintlock rifles as their means of defense, these hardy nineteenth century adventurers were out to make their fortunes if they could survive attacks by hostile Indians such as this.
Prior to the summer season, when the furs were transported back to the settlements, fur traders and trappers traversed and explored every stream and river in the west on horseback, dugout canoe, bullboat, or snowshoe in search of beaver and other fur pelts to supply the fashion needs of the eastern United States and Europe.
Early California Settlers was originally engraved by John Andrew and was first published in 1856 in Ballous Illustrated Drawing Room Companion.
This early print depicts a party of California emigrants in the early days of the American westward migration of the 1840s. Guided by the principles and promises of manifest destiny, thousands of families left all they knew behind, jumping into the unknown frontier from cities like St. Louis and following the Oregon and California Trails to a new life in the Promised Land.
Many a buckskin-clad, flintlock-toting old fur trapper turned to guiding these Conestoga wagon trains across the plains and over the Rocky Mountains once the bottom fell out of the beaver trade. Others became buffalo hunters, Indian agents, interpreters, or guides for the military.
The detail in these old engravings is nothing short of awesome! There is so much animated action contained here, that every time you look at them, you will see something new.
Even when these prints were originally published, they were depicting the romanticism of a quarter of a century in the past. A fascination of the wild unsettled American West still exists today as it did almost one hundred and fifty years ago.
These high-quality reproduction engravings have been produced on antique-style heavyweight acid-free paper. Each print has an image size of approximately 14" x 21" and the paper size is 16 1/4" x 22 3/4".
