Wyoming Overland Trail View is a drawing by Dawn Senior-Trask which was uploaded on April 8th, 2014.
Wyoming Overland Trail View
Here's a field sketch I touched up digitally. From the top of a grassy knoll, I looked across the valley hay meadows to the North Platte River... more
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Wyoming Overland Trail View
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Dawn Senior-Trask
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Drawing - Pencil, Freehand Digital Charcoal
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Here's a field sketch I touched up digitally. From the top of a grassy knoll, I looked across the valley hay meadows to the North Platte River nestled in its cottonwoods beneath tiers of rocky bluffs. Far in the distance you can see Sheep's Head, a small foothill of Elk Mountain in the Snowy Range. This view is of great historical significance because the Overland Trail crosses the area. Wagon trains and stagecoaches used to venture through this country, often attacked by the tribes who were understandably angry about the Sand Creek Massacre, which made them terribly afraid and determined to keep the invaders out. This isn't the exact spot where the Overland crossed the river, but near it. Warriors burned every stage station along this section of the trail. Soldiers came, stationed at a fort, now a ranch where I have seen the old bunkers built into the hills. These pits, fortified with stone breastworks, are now full of rattlesnakes. In the creek valley leading to the fort, a terrible battle was fought. The tribes gave up this area in the Ft. Laramie treaty of 1868.
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April 8th, 2014
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Comments (20)
John Bailey
Congratulations on being featured in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
I J T SON OF JESUS
You are such talented artist to draw such a fantastic piece of art, marvelous by all means, well done and vote 12
Bob Orsillo
Your shadows sky and grass feel like they in motion across the vast rugged landscape. One can imagine the history here. Interesting description - all that was not so long ago ... L/F
Christiane Schulze
Awesome drawing of this wonderful Dawn. Like the perspective and shading. :-) (F/L)
Gloria Ssali
stunning work Dawn love the use of single colour creativity at its best ....the flow over the canvas of those beautiful fields and grasses has such beauty and lovely style am speechless love it so much fl