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Red Bluffs, North Platte River, U.S. Geological survey going into camp where the Oregon Trail left the Platte for Sweetwater Valley.

Photographer/Artist/Creator: 
1869-1870

Gelatin print, 9 x 19.5 cm.

A photograph of wagons and men approaching a river. The title was taken from Jackson's The Oregon Trail, Photographs of the U.S. Geological Survey of 1869 & 1870,... and more recent views along the old trail made in 1929.

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