1850s Buffalo Hunting
DESCRIPTION
A buffalo hunt on the open plains appears in this excerpted wood engraving from a nineteenth-century book.
Two riders chase a buffalo across a rolling prairie, the nearer horseman at left leaning forward with his lance raised as the animal runs ahead. At lower right, a second rider on a plunging dark horse raises his arm to throw, and the grassland stretches away to the horizon beneath a sky of fine ruled lines. The vignette sits within a double-ruled border above the caption and the reverse's text touches on trade and the making of snowshoes.
CONDITION
With light show-through of the text on the reverse and light toning, this leaf is in very good-excellent condition.
1200 W. 35th Street #425 Chicago, IL 60609 | P: (312) 496 - 3622