Clean, attractive tinted plate Old Elk and His Squaw–Utah Indians. Print showing Old Elk armed with a long gun, and his wife, both clothed in pelts.From Stansbury's 1853 Exploration and Survey of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Howard Stansbury, a Captain and topographical engineer, was assigned in to survey the region of the Great Salt Lake in search of a possible transcontinental railway route and of a better route between Fort Bridger (Wyoming) and Salt Lake City (Utah).
Old Elk and his Squaw, Stansbury, 1853
Old Elk and His Squaw–Utah Indians, from Stansbury's 1853 Report