Fort Fetterman

Graphite drawing on paper "Fort Fetterman" by Merritt Dana Houghton. The landscape depicts an open grassy field with rows of hay. A road that angles along the proper left with four wagons and multiple animal teams. In the middle ground is a fort of buildings built around a perimeter parade ground . Another road or trail with a wagon angles around the fort and disappears into the distance. Hills line the background.

Merritt Dana "M.D." Houghton (31 May 1846 -- March 1919) was an artist who traveled Wyoming creating pen and ink drawings of both existing and his interpretation of historic locations. He made his home at various times in Laramie, Saratoga, Buffalo, and Encampment where he completed large (and unknown) number of ink sketches of mines, ranches and landscapes. His many drawings and maps record an otherwise lost era in Wyoming's history.