Camel Train in Nevada, c. 1877 by Paul Frenzeny

Camel Train in Nevada, by Paul Frenzeny depicts a mounted rider and a desert guide leading a line of loaded camels across the arid Nevada landscape, a scene tied to the real 19th-century U.S. Camel Corps experiment, whose surplus camels were later used by prospectors and freighters in the Nevada desert. Frenzeny was a French-American illustrator (active 1870s-1900s, d. 1902) who traveled across the American West for Harper's Weekly beginning in 1873, sketching frontier life firsthand for the magazine's readers.

Artist: Paul Frenzeny (French-American, active 1870s-1900s, d. 1902). Date: 1877 (published in Harper's Weekly, June 30, 1877).

Camel Train in Nevada by Paul Frenzeny. Historic American West Wood Engraving Canvas Print.