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He was from Europe, very talented man, who wanted to see what the Oregon Trail people were seeing. He had the talent to pain like a photograph, and painted in color. He went through,
what would end up becoming the State of Nebraska, along the ruts of the Oregon Trail itself, Sitting there at Chimney Rock, which was east some miles from the Scotts Bluff
National Monument, which back in 1960, I was a National Park Ranger, stationed there, with the job and duty of either patroling the area, lecturing on the Geologic History of that area,
including the actual History of the area, which contained Mitchell Pass. Inside that Museum back then, was actual color paintings, done by ALBERT BIERSTADT, which he
painted during his travel through the Mitchell Pass area back in the year 1869. I got some of the photos of his paintings. Like I said, very talented man, from German descent,
and the site of Chimney Rock, was around 30 or so miles East of the Museum....... There camped there, that day back in 1869, was a tribe of Sioux Indians, men, women, and
children, and here came Albert Bierstadt, with his painting materials, he sat down, along the Oregon Trail, they clustered around this strange white man, as he sat paint Chimny Rock
itself, an place were the Oregon Trail travelers, could see in the distance, arrived there, some camped there, others just went on toward the Mitchel Pass area, went through the
pass on their way to Fort Laramie, WYOMING. I give you below, Albert Bierstadt's paining of CHIMNEY ROCK!!!
MELBETA
There you go, the water is the North Platte River, in the distance, is the rock NEEDLE, called the SPIRE, of CHIMNEY ROCK, the trail goes by that rock
to the right side of the rock, toward Mitchell Pass, where the Scotts Bluff where the Monument is located. The Indians here, are Sioux Indians, their tents
are called Tepees, held up by tree branches, the indians there, are the Sioux indians, he sat down, and began painting this scene that day, the little
Indian kids, clustered around this strange white man, wanted to see what he was doing. Here came the Squaws, which were he female indians, the two
males are Warriors of the Sioux indian nation.
Now back in 1940s, during WWII, an bunch of Sioux men, women, children, camped a block from our house, north of Fairview Cemetery, and myself,
being a young boy, curious as to what this bunch of indians was doing camped near our farm house, went down the road, walked up to their Tepee
encampment there. They were clustered around an dead dog, beating it with tree branch sticks, which I will call clubs, and I asked them what they
were doing to the dead dog. One of them looked at this young boy, and told me they were tenderizing its flesh. You see, they wanted it good and juicy
before they put it over the fire they had burning there that day. I watched, they stuck an piece of the wooden branch, into the anus of the dog, began
to beat the dickens out of the dead dog, then when done, picked the carcass up, stuck a branch into the anus which ran through the body, and out of
the mouth of the dog, stuck it on a two upright branches, and it began to be roated and cooked over the fire. I was invited to dine with them, but not
wanting to eat dead dog, I declined and returned to our farm house. I think the year was 1942, Pearl Harbor had been bombing, they came from
Pine Ridge Reservation at Pine Ridge South Dakota, to help America harvest the fall crops from our fields... But these above, were camped near the water,
and the Oregon Trail people were approached, the indians tended to beg for food, guns, ammunition for the guns, and of course, beg for the white man's
fire water, which he called whiskey! So now you know Albert Bierstadt's story at Chimney Rock that day, and you now know my story of my witnessing
the preparation of a dead indian dog that morning near our farm...
MELBETA
Right below, is another painting Albert Bierstadt painted, along the Oregon Trail, labeled The Oregon Trail, further west of Chimney Rock later
on, with some of the Oregon Trail wagons and people and animals heading west to Oregon...
I will now insert some more of Albert Bierstadt's paintings for you viewers and readers to look at... Not in order of his travel, but are showing and depicting
the beautiful paintings of Albert Bierstadt...The one below, is Landers Peak mountain, and it was done earlier in 1863, on his very virst trip along the Oregon
Trail itself, and it is located in the State of Wyoming... Near Lander Wyoming you see... Sioux indians are also camped there, with their Tepees along the
North Platte River, in Wyoming... I talk about each one, as I began to select them for you to view.......Not in the order of his travel of course.
The following painting is called Bridal Veil Falls Yosemite 1874, was at the future sile of Yosemite National Park later on in history, and he
painted this view in 1874. Yes, I enhanced each one of the paintings as I was a Printer's Devil you see...
Now Albert Bierstadt was in the Colorado Springs area in 1886, he climbed up the mountains west of town, and painted this scene from Mount Rosa mountain,
there was a rain storm that day, and Albert painted that storm as well, and I enhanced it too...
The next painting is called Mount Rainier, and it is furth northwest, I do not know its exact year, but it is inserted next and was in the State
of Washington. Enjoy the talent of Albert Bierstadt's paintings on his trip from Europe...
And this last photo I have saved from Alberts paintings, was in the Sierra Mountains of Nevada, and again I do not know the year he painted this
scene, but it is labeled Sierra Nevada. That is all I am going to stick in today. Today Scotts Bluff National Monument is still in existence, only they had Mission
66 project happen in the year 1966, they removed the historical objects, stuck them in storage in the basement of the Museum, and instead are colored
placards telling the HISTORY of the area and the history of the STORY of the Oregon Trail. What can I say other then I think they screwed with our history and
stuck the history into storage in basements, all along the Oregon Trail. The hell with Mission 66 project MELBETA says in his truthfull feelings...... You will
see a few of Albert's painting there, at my time as a Ranger there, you saw all we had in our Ranger hands. Today just a few are there... So I stuck it in FULL
SIZED so you can really enjoy the talent of Albert Bierstadt back in the 1860s traveling through our state and along the Oregon Trail through other states!!!
I AM MELBETA and I always tell what I believe is the truth and I am glad I got to see the Monument as it was when I was a child back in 1951!!!!!!!!
what would end up becoming the State of Nebraska, along the ruts of the Oregon Trail itself, Sitting there at Chimney Rock, which was east some miles from the Scotts Bluff
National Monument, which back in 1960, I was a National Park Ranger, stationed there, with the job and duty of either patroling the area, lecturing on the Geologic History of that area,
including the actual History of the area, which contained Mitchell Pass. Inside that Museum back then, was actual color paintings, done by ALBERT BIERSTADT, which he
painted during his travel through the Mitchell Pass area back in the year 1869. I got some of the photos of his paintings. Like I said, very talented man, from German descent,
and the site of Chimney Rock, was around 30 or so miles East of the Museum....... There camped there, that day back in 1869, was a tribe of Sioux Indians, men, women, and
children, and here came Albert Bierstadt, with his painting materials, he sat down, along the Oregon Trail, they clustered around this strange white man, as he sat paint Chimny Rock
itself, an place were the Oregon Trail travelers, could see in the distance, arrived there, some camped there, others just went on toward the Mitchel Pass area, went through the
pass on their way to Fort Laramie, WYOMING. I give you below, Albert Bierstadt's paining of CHIMNEY ROCK!!!
MELBETA
There you go, the water is the North Platte River, in the distance, is the rock NEEDLE, called the SPIRE, of CHIMNEY ROCK, the trail goes by that rock
to the right side of the rock, toward Mitchell Pass, where the Scotts Bluff where the Monument is located. The Indians here, are Sioux Indians, their tents
are called Tepees, held up by tree branches, the indians there, are the Sioux indians, he sat down, and began painting this scene that day, the little
Indian kids, clustered around this strange white man, wanted to see what he was doing. Here came the Squaws, which were he female indians, the two
males are Warriors of the Sioux indian nation.
Now back in 1940s, during WWII, an bunch of Sioux men, women, children, camped a block from our house, north of Fairview Cemetery, and myself,
being a young boy, curious as to what this bunch of indians was doing camped near our farm house, went down the road, walked up to their Tepee
encampment there. They were clustered around an dead dog, beating it with tree branch sticks, which I will call clubs, and I asked them what they
were doing to the dead dog. One of them looked at this young boy, and told me they were tenderizing its flesh. You see, they wanted it good and juicy
before they put it over the fire they had burning there that day. I watched, they stuck an piece of the wooden branch, into the anus of the dog, began
to beat the dickens out of the dead dog, then when done, picked the carcass up, stuck a branch into the anus which ran through the body, and out of
the mouth of the dog, stuck it on a two upright branches, and it began to be roated and cooked over the fire. I was invited to dine with them, but not
wanting to eat dead dog, I declined and returned to our farm house. I think the year was 1942, Pearl Harbor had been bombing, they came from
Pine Ridge Reservation at Pine Ridge South Dakota, to help America harvest the fall crops from our fields... But these above, were camped near the water,
and the Oregon Trail people were approached, the indians tended to beg for food, guns, ammunition for the guns, and of course, beg for the white man's
fire water, which he called whiskey! So now you know Albert Bierstadt's story at Chimney Rock that day, and you now know my story of my witnessing
the preparation of a dead indian dog that morning near our farm...
MELBETA
Right below, is another painting Albert Bierstadt painted, along the Oregon Trail, labeled The Oregon Trail, further west of Chimney Rock later
on, with some of the Oregon Trail wagons and people and animals heading west to Oregon...
I will now insert some more of Albert Bierstadt's paintings for you viewers and readers to look at... Not in order of his travel, but are showing and depicting
the beautiful paintings of Albert Bierstadt...The one below, is Landers Peak mountain, and it was done earlier in 1863, on his very virst trip along the Oregon
Trail itself, and it is located in the State of Wyoming... Near Lander Wyoming you see... Sioux indians are also camped there, with their Tepees along the
North Platte River, in Wyoming... I talk about each one, as I began to select them for you to view.......Not in the order of his travel of course.
The following painting is called Bridal Veil Falls Yosemite 1874, was at the future sile of Yosemite National Park later on in history, and he
painted this view in 1874. Yes, I enhanced each one of the paintings as I was a Printer's Devil you see...
Now Albert Bierstadt was in the Colorado Springs area in 1886, he climbed up the mountains west of town, and painted this scene from Mount Rosa mountain,
there was a rain storm that day, and Albert painted that storm as well, and I enhanced it too...
The next painting is called Mount Rainier, and it is furth northwest, I do not know its exact year, but it is inserted next and was in the State
of Washington. Enjoy the talent of Albert Bierstadt's paintings on his trip from Europe...
And this last photo I have saved from Alberts paintings, was in the Sierra Mountains of Nevada, and again I do not know the year he painted this
scene, but it is labeled Sierra Nevada. That is all I am going to stick in today. Today Scotts Bluff National Monument is still in existence, only they had Mission
66 project happen in the year 1966, they removed the historical objects, stuck them in storage in the basement of the Museum, and instead are colored
placards telling the HISTORY of the area and the history of the STORY of the Oregon Trail. What can I say other then I think they screwed with our history and
stuck the history into storage in basements, all along the Oregon Trail. The hell with Mission 66 project MELBETA says in his truthfull feelings...... You will
see a few of Albert's painting there, at my time as a Ranger there, you saw all we had in our Ranger hands. Today just a few are there... So I stuck it in FULL
SIZED so you can really enjoy the talent of Albert Bierstadt back in the 1860s traveling through our state and along the Oregon Trail through other states!!!
I AM MELBETA and I always tell what I believe is the truth and I am glad I got to see the Monument as it was when I was a child back in 1951!!!!!!!!