Darley illustrated the works of James Fenimore Cooper and created a wide variety of such illustrations even though he never visited the West. This example was created as a design for Union script made to repay the victims of Confederate guerilla raids.

ca.1860s, pencil, ink and wash on paper
Autry Museum of Western Heritage, acc. 88.108.41

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