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Alfred Jacob Miller

December 2023
1min read

This young Baltimore artist was hired by a Scottish adventurer. Captain William Drummond Stewart, to join him at St. Louis and paint pictures to adorn the Captain’s castle in Scotland. They followed the Oregon Trail through hostile Indian country to Fort Laramie, where Miller painted this famous frontier post with its surrounding Indian encampment.

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