Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Cherokee Trail

 
Original - Cherokee Trail near Fort Collins, Colorado, from a sketch taken 7 June 1859.
Reason
A landscape of one of the trails that settlers used to cross the Rocky Mountains into the Pacific territories of the United States. Sketch made in 1859 shows deep wagon ruts in the unpaved route through a mountain pass; scarcity of traversible passes was an important determinant of trail routes. Restored version of File:Cherokee_Pass2.jpg
Articles this image appears in
Cherokee Trail, Larimer County, Colorado, Rocky Mountains#Human history
Creator
Daniel A. Jenks

Promoted File:Cherokee Pass2.jpg - Damërung . -- 09:03, 26 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]