The Cooper Immigrant Train, (painting).

The Cooper Immigrant Train, (painting).

Phillips, Bert Geer, 1868-1956, painter.

The Cooper Immigrant Train, (painting).

This lunette, one of twenty-two along the second floor corridor, depicts a caravan of covered wagons pulled by oxen traveling across a snow-covered Missouri landscape in the early evening. The family of Colonel Benjamin Cooper seen here came from Kentucky in February 1810 and settled on Loutre Island in the Missouri River. Later they moved on and settled what is now Cooper County, Missouri.

History -- United States -- Westward Expansion

Landscape -- Missouri

Landscape -- Season -- Winter

Landscape -- Weather -- Snow

Landscape -- Time -- Evening

Architecture -- Vehicle -- Wagon

Animal -- Cattle

Portrait group -- Family

Portrait male -- Cooper, Benjamin

Occupation -- Other -- Pioneer

Missouri State Capitol, 2nd floor corridor, Jefferson City, Missouri 65101

Schimmel, Julie and Robert R. White, "Bert Geer Phillips and the Taos Art Colony," Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.

Missouri Capitol Commission Board, "The Missouri State Capitol," 1983 rev. ed.

Missouri Capitol Commission Board, "The Missouri State Capitol," 1983 rev. ed., (Pickard: Report of the Capitol Decoration Commission: pg. 110).

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