Memories of Fort Fetterman, Wyoming

Oil painting on pressed paper board "Memories of Fort Fetterman, Wyoming 1867-70 Inclusive" by Lauren Winfield Aldrich. The historic narrative painting depicts a fort with the North Platte River and mountains in the background. A dirt road leading into the fort has a wagon full of logs on one side and cavalry on horseback on the other that are labeled mail escort to Horse Shoe Creek.

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.