Grand Encampment from the Southwest

Ink wash and graphite drawing on paper "Grand Encampment from the Southwest" by Merritt Dana Houghton. The drawing depicts a birds eye view of a small town that include houses, buildings, and a tramway carries buckets to a group of buildings on the edge of town. There is a large smokestack billowing smoke. In the foreground is a pond with people around it. Mountains 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.