Eye for History : The Paintings of William Henry Jackson: from the Collection at the Oregon Trail Museum

The Oregon Trail Museum is located at Scotts Bluff National Monument in Gering, NE. The monument consists of 3,000 acres of prairie and scenic sandstone bluffs, and is dedicated to preserving the legacy of America¹s westward movement. This book includes color reproductions of paintings by William Henry Jackson in the museum¹s collection. Jackson was a Union soldier in the Civil War, bullwhacker on the Oregon Trial, explorer, photographer and artist for the famous Hayden Surveys of the Territories in the 1870s, author, publisher, world traveler, and businessman. After retiring in 1920, he spent over 20 years in the scenes of his young manhood in the West, sketching, photographing, writing, identifying historic sites, writing and illustrating books, and more.Knudsen, Dean is the author of 'Eye for History : The Paintings of William Henry Jackson: from the Collection at the Oregon Trail Museum', published 2003 under ISBN 9780756737160 and ISBN 0756737168.