Photographer/artist: Merle Porter. Published by Royal Pictures, Colton, CA 44899
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Photo location: Unknown
Type: postcard
Subject: Wagon Train
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Source: TDHS Collection
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Contributor: Mortier
Notes: HCS 5/30/2023. Original image is 9.1 MB. Real Photo Post Card. Western transportation in the 1940s. The saga of the west is one of transportation. The early emigrants pushed west by oxen team. The wagons carried all their earthly possessions. History records the hardships that these early people had on their trek west; Caravans of Donner, Fremont, Stevens - Murphy part. The Jayhawkers led by Monte and the Mormons that came form Salt Lake City to lay out the city of San Bernardino, California in June of 1851.
