Depiction of Bear’s Teeth at the Missouri River - Gateway to the Rockies, 1856

Name: Depiction of Bear’s Teeth at the Missouri River - Gateway to the Rockies, 1856
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14038-70
Price: 245 USD
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Date: 1856
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 20.7 × 28.3 cm (8.1 × 11.1 in)
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Montana
Reference: BG-14038-70

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Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

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Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Bear's Teeth on the Missouri River, a color-tinted lithograph of 1856 from the Pacific Railroad Surveys reports (heading "U.S.P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys, 47th & 49th Parallels", "General Report, Plate LI"). The sheet is lettered "Bear's Teeth, Missouri River" with the subtitle "Gate of the Mountains", and carries the credit "Stanley del." and the imprint of the lithographers Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, New York.

A jagged rocky peak rises at the left of the view, and a smaller flat-topped bluff stands at the right, with the river winding between them across a dry, sage-covered plain. A few small tents are pitched near the water and a single rider crosses the foreground, set against a sky of drifting white cloud.

The landmark lies in what is now Montana, on the upper Missouri, where the river cuts through the mountains; the northern survey of the 47th and 49th parallels, under Isaac Stevens, mapped the route from the Mississippi to Puget Sound.

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