Platte Purchase Mural with Dr. Lewis L. Linn, News Clipping, undated
Entry/Object ID
AM1981.1.49
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Doctor Lewis Fields Linn The Platte Purchase, undated.
This is a newspaper picture of the Platte Purchase. The caption under the picture state that this mural painted by George Gray will be unveiled Thursday night by the Missouri State Historical society in the crystal room of Hotel Robidoux in St. Joseph. The mural is 16 feet in length and is 8 feet high. It will be a companion mural to a painting of the Pony Express which has not yet been completed. In the lower left hand corner is a portrait of Dr. Lewis L. Linn, who gained fame as "The Model Senator," when he represented Missouri in the upper house of congress from 1834 to 1843. The right hand side of the mural is seen a map of the Platte Purchase region showing the location of the various Indian tribes.
In the mural, the Indians are shown listening to the conditions of the treaty which ceded the purchase to the whites. An officer of the dragoons is reading the treaty and standing next to him is William Clark, the superintendent of Indian affairs.
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