Bozeman Trail

Oil painting on pressed paper board "Bozeman Trail" by Lauren Winfield Aldrich. The historic narrative painting depicts an abstract prairie landscape with small ravines or eroded areas. A wagon train pulled by oxen, men on horseback and loose cattle or oxen travel across the center. In the background is a plateau.

Lauren Winfield Aldrich (1868-1938) served as an army scout in Nebraska and Wyoming at forts along the route of the Union Pacific Railroad construction. Aldrich was assigned to Fort Laramie, Fort Russell, Fort Fetterman, and Fort Kearny. He documented his regiment's skirmishes with the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Sioux Indians, as well as their dealings with the Pawnee scouts.