File:Peep at Washoe - The Pocket Pistol.jpg

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Description "The Pocket Pistol" (i.e., a flask of whiskey), illustration from "A Peep at Washoe" by J. Ross Browne, in Harper's Monthly Magazine, December 1860. This would be while in California en route to the Washoe Valley in what is now Nevada (then the Utah Territory).
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Source Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXII, p. 10, December 1860, Harper Brothers, New York. Scanned at 300 dpi, then cleaned up with GIMP.
Author Image on first page of article is signed "Stephens" (first name unknown to me). All images in the article appear to be the same artist.
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