Independence Rock, a loaf-shaped formation along the Sweetwater River that would have had little significance, had it not stood at roughly the midpoint of westbound emigrants' arduous trek from the vicinity of the Mississippi River to their destinations far to the west
Highsmith, Carol M.,
1946-
photographer
still image
graphic
government publication
still image
Digital photographs-Color-2010-2020.
wyu
2016
monographic
2016-05-29
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They called it Independence Rock with the appreciation that it would be wise to reach this location in what is now Natrona County, Wyoming, by U.S. Independence Day, July 4, in order to have a good chance of making it through the forbidding Rocky Mountains before heavy snowfall sealed passes and threatened their survival. The area around the rock was also a fortuitous resting spot, blessed with fresh water and plenty of grass for livestock
Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; Gates Frontiers Fund; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:069).
Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
America
Independence Rock
Oregon Trail
Sweetwater River
United States
Wyoming
Natrona County
LC-DIG-highsm- 38250
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.38250
Carol M. Highsmith Archive
(DLC) 00650024
Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-
2017688142
LC-DIG-highsm-38250 DLC
hdl:loc.pnp/highsm.38250
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