Emigrants Escaping from the Prairie Fire, (painting).

Emigrants Escaping from the Prairie Fire, (painting).

Beardsley, Jefferson, painter.

Emigrants Escaping from the Prairie Fire, (painting).

58 x 48 1/2 in.

J. Beardsley 1857 signed

Emigrants in horse-drawn, covered wagon trying to escape a prairie fire.

Disaster -- Fire

Landscape -- Plain

Architecture -- Vehicle -- Wagon

Animal -- Horse

History -- United States -- Westward Expansion

Hellmuth, George F., 5 Conway Lane, St. Louis, Missouri 63124

Purchased from Argosy Gallery, 116 East 59th Street, New York, New York 10022 1979.

Formerly in the collection of B. G. Jacque and Company, 1859.

National Academy of Design Thirty Fourth Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1959.

DeWitt Historical Society indicates that previous owner name may be B. G. Jacque or B. G. Jayne of Ithaca.

DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County, 1990.

Hessrick, Royal B., "The Western Frontier," Denver: Denver Art Museum, Summer 1966.

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