They Left Their Tracks Wood Print

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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.

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Photography is all about using light to capture the emotion and beauty of a fleeting moment. For me, this adventure began with a single spring image using a small Kodak film camera of a freshly watered central Kansas ditch and has come full circle using modern digital techniques. My first camera was acquired by trading an ancient Royal typewriter to a fellow college student who was desperate to finish a term paper. It was a long time ago and that camera was my passport to an art that has fascinated me ever since. I owned and operated a professional studio in central Kansas for 20 years and moved to Colorado in 1994. Part of the studio's early success came from creating outdoor portraiture using controlled lighting...