They Left Their Tracks
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
They Left Their Tracks
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
Faint wagon ruts can be seen alongside of the Chimney Rock Cemetery near Bayard, Nebraska. From here, the wagon trains headed further west to Scott’s Bluff.
Scott’s Bluff is a range of hills which parallels the Platte River, and is a large isolated land mass near Gering, Nebraska. The wagon train caravan was organized by settlers in the United States for emigration to the west during the late 18th and most of the 19th centuries. Composed of up to 100 Conestoga wagons, traveling in these trains soon became the prevailing mode of long-distance overland transportation for both people and goods. As wagon train transportation moved westward with the advancing frontier in the 19th century, the development of famous routes as the Santa Fe Trail, Oregon Trail, Smoky Hill Trail, California Trail and the Southern Overland Mail route.
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Your finished photograph will not contain the Fine Art America watermark.
Image copyright 2021 Jon Burch Photography.
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June 16th, 2021
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