Fort Supply

Pen, ink, and graphite drawing on paper "Fort Supply" by Merritt Dana Houghton. It depicts a Mormon settlement near Fort Bridger, Wyoming. Intersecting dirt roads lead into a fenced in fort. A covered wagon with an ox team are on the proper right. Buildings and covered wagons inside the fort with trees lining 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.