Early California Settlers

Image Size Approx 14x21     First Printing - Edition of 200      $19.95

Early California Settlers was originally engraved by John Andrew and was first published in 1856 in Ballous Illustrated Drawing Room Companion.

This early print depicts a party of California emigrants in the early days of the American westward migration of the 1840s. Guided by the principles and promises of manifest destiny, thousands of families left all they knew behind, jumping into the unknown frontier from cities like St. Louis and following the Oregon and California Trails to a new life in the Promised Land.

Many a buckskin-clad, flintlock-toting old fur trapper turned to guiding these Conestoga wagon trains across the plains and over the Rocky Mountains once the bottom fell out of the beaver trade. Others became buffalo hunters, Indian agents, interpreters, or guides for the military.

The detail in these old engravings is nothing short of awesome! There is so much animated action contained here, that every time you look at them, you will see something new.

Even when these prints were originally published, they were depicting the romanticism of a quarter of a century in the past. A fascination of the wild unsettled American West still exists today as it did almost one hundred and fifty years ago.

These high-quality reproduction engravings have been produced in editions of 200 prints each on antique-style heavyweight acid-free paper. Each hand numbered print has an image size of approximately 14 x 21 and the paper size is 16 1/4 x 22 3/4.