Keywords: Photograph of the Red Buttes - NARA - 516886.tif Scope and content Original caption View of the Red Buttes at what is now known as Bessemer Bend a notable point of the old Oregon Trail where the Oregon Trail left the North Platte River for the Sweetwater The approximate location of a massacre of 23 U S troopers in 1865 which occurred at the same time as the death of Casper Collins at that bridge for whom the town of Casper was named General notes 516886 Local identifier 57-HS-277 Department of the Interior General Land Office U S Geological and Geographic Survey of the Territories 1874 - 06/30/1879 NARA-Author Jackson William Henry 1843-1942 Photographer 1116078 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1870 Record group Record Group 57 Records of the U S Geological Survey 1839 - 2008 Record group ARC 386 Hayden Survey William H Jackson Photographs compiled 1869 - 1878 Series ARC 516606 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-57-HS-277<br /> Search Identifier siEyewitness Exhibit yes Other versions <gallery> File Photograph_of_the_Red_Buttes_-_NARA_-_516886 tif tif File Photograph_of_the_Red_Buttes_-_NARA_-_516886 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov NARA TIF images with categorized JPGs NARA images of Wyoming 1870 Oregon Trail North Platte North Platte River 1870 Buttes of Wyoming Covered wagons Wagons in the United States Natrona County Wyoming 1870 Landscapes of Wyoming 1870 1870 in Wyoming 1870 photographs Black and white photographs of landscapes 1870 Black and white photographs of Wyoming 1870 |