Keywords: Alfred Jacob Miller - Trapping Beaver - Walters 371940111.jpg Having searched around the stream for sign of beavers- such as footprints in the mud or sand these trappers are in the process of setting their five pound traps in beds they had dug with their knives Each trap was tied firmly to a tree or a pole as well as a float stick that was hammered into the mud to the beaver could not carry off the trap The trappers travel in pairs because of the continual threat of Indian attack between 1858 1860 watercolor paper cm 22 5 35 accession number 37 1940 111 20824 William T Walters Baltimore 1858-1860 by commission Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Commissioned by William T Walters 1858-1860 American West Out of Myth into Reality Terra Museum of American Art Chicago; Toledo Museum of Art Toledo; Mississippi Museum of Art Jackson 2000-2001 Mountain Man Buffalo Bill Historical Center Cody 1978 Opening the Way West Katonah Gallery Katonah 1981 Alfred Jacob Miller An Artist on the Oregon Trail Alfred Jacob Miller Watercolors and Drawings The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 The Western Experience The Monmouth Museum Lincroft 1989 Sentimental Journey The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller Amon Carter Museum Fort Worth; Joslyn Art Museum Omaha 2008-2009 place of origin USA Walters Art Museum license 2D Alfred Jacob Miller An Artist on the Oregon Trail 19th-century watercolor paintings in the United States Paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller in the Walters Art Museum Watercolor paintings of hunters Rivers of the United States in art Castor canadensis |