Ranch of K.P. Nickell

Watercolor painting on paper "Ranch of K.P. Nickell" by Merritt Dana Houghton. It depicts cattle in a field in front of single story ranch house with outbuildings that include barns with fenced stockyard. A dirt road runs before the buildings with a carriage. Background has rocky hill and small pond.

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.