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Title
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Drawing near a Kaw village on the Oregon Trail
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Description
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Drawing by Pherne Brown Pringle, the daughter of Tabitha Moffatt Brown, the 'Mother of Oregon.' This sketch shows the scenery soon after their departure on the Oregon Trail. On May 17th, they camped near an Indian village. Copies of later drawings were accompanied in an album by journal entries of Pherne's husband, Virgil K. Pringle.
Virgil's journal indicates that they caught a Kaw Indian attempting to steal their stock on this day:
'Our course this day was over hills running parallel with the Kansas; the morning cool; drove ahead till after two o'clock, it became very hot; several oxen overcome with the heat; stopped about three hours on a branch at the end of the Kansas bottom; country still very fertile and handsome; timber scarce; encamped this night near a Kaw village. Mr. Barnard, while on guard, caught one attempting to steal our stock; made, by our reckoning, 20 miles.'
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Creator
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Pringle, Pherne Brown
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Date
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1846
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Identifier
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PUA_MS14_20.jpg
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Rights
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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Type
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Still Image
