Wagon Train to the West
Daniel A. Jenks (1827-1869)
Pretty Camp-Rocky Mountains [1859]
Graphite and ink on paper
Prints & Photographs Division (
48B.3)
LC-USZC4-9432
[digital ID# ppmsc-04811]
Camp 23rd Arkansas River [1859],
Graphite, ink, crayon, and watercolor on paper
Purchased through the
Ed Cox Americana Fund
(Madison Council)
Prints & Photographs Division (48A.6)
LC-USZC4-9421 [digital ID# ppmsc-04809]
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Daniel Jenks traveled to Yreka, California, twice from his native
Pawtucket, Rhode Island. In 1849 he joined thousands of '49ers
who poured into California by sailing around Cape Horn. In 1859,
after a few months at home, Jenks began his overland journey, intending
to mine for gold at Pike's Peak. Disillusioned, he returned to
Yreka and, on December 24, 1859, bought a mining claim on Long
Gulch, where he had mined previously.
These are four of twenty
drawings illustrating his travels that Jenks created after he
arrived in
Yreka, in 1859. He mailed them home to his sister in Pawtucket
with a volume of his edited diary.
Cherokee Pass [1859]
Graphite and ink on paper
[Digital ID# ppmsca-04813]
Prints & Photographs Division (47A.4)
Purchased through the Ed Cox Americana Fund
(Madison Council)
Camp 120 Eagle Lake, Sierra
Nevadas [1859],
Graphite, ink, crayon, and watercolor on paper
[Digital ID# ppmsca-04821]
Prints & Photographs Division (47A.4)
Purchased through the Ed Cox Americana Fund
(Madison Council)
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