| Interpreters
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1. "Press
representatives accompanying excursion party to a point on 100th
meridian--275 miles west of Omaha, Nebraska [Terr.]." By
John Crbutt for the Union Pacific Railroad, October 24, 1866.
111-SC-85703. |
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2. Staff of
the Daily Reporter in front of their office. Corinne,
Boxelder Co., Utah Terr. By William H. Jackson, 1869. 57-HS-718. |
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3. "Fred W. Loring,
in his campaign costume, with his mule `Evil Merodach.' Taken
about 48 hours before he was brutally murdered by
Apache--Mohaves, while en route from Prescott, A. T. [Ariz.
Terr.] to San Bernadino, Cal., by stage. Loring had been with
the [Wheeler] expedition as general assisstant and
correspondent, and was returning to the East with a mind stored
with rare adventure and scenic wonders." By Timothy H.
O'Sullivan, 1871. 106-WA-145. |
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4. "McKay, the San
Francisco Bulletin correspondent taking notes on the battlefield
near Gen. Gillem's camp. At the left are two Warm Springs
scouts, on the lookout for Modocs." Modoc Indian War, in
California and Oregon lava beds, 1872--73. 111-SC-82307. |
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5. "Distant view of
Ancient Ruins in lower part of Ca¤on de Chelle [Ariz. Terr.]
... Showing their position in the walls and elevation above bed
of ca¤on." A member of the Wheeler Expedition is sketching
the ruins from the foreground of the photograph. By O'Sullivan,
1873. 77-WE-4l. |
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6. John K. Hillers at
work with his negatives. In camp, Aquarius Plateau, Utah Terr.
Hillers was a photographer with the John Wesley Powell
Geological Survey. By Hillers, ca. 1872. 57-PS-809. |
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