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Six months in the wilds of the North-West : Sandstone rocks in Dead Horse Valley
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Six months in the wilds of the North-West : Sandstone rocks in Dead Horse Valley

  • R-B3270
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  • 1875 or before

Item is a mounted image from the southern Alberta badlands showing a First Nations person standing beside a horse, next to two men (possibly Northwest Mounted Police [NWMP] officers) on horses (one in profile, one shown from the rear). Scrub plant growth is in foreground of image and rocky outcrops (hoodoos) in background.

Image appeared in Canadian Illustrated News, May 22, 1875 (volume XI, number 21, p. 324).