Thomas Kennet-Were

Wigwam of Ute Indians, Salt Lake City, 1869. Thomas Kennet-Were Papers, American Heritage Center.

Thomas Kennet-Were was an English gentleman, artist, magistrate, councilor, and patron of the arts. He created field studies and watercolors of scenes he encountered during an 1868-69 journey across the United States. Kennet-Were began his journey in New York. After traveling by foot, wagon, boat, and railroad, Kennet-Were and his friends eventually made it to Salt Lake City. From there they journeyed on the Central Pacific Railroad to California, where they boarded a ship that took them to Acapulco, Mexico, and finally back to New York. By the time they returned to London they had traveled more than 26,000 miles over land and water. The exhibit combines reproductions of his watercolors and related excerpts from his travel diary.

Size: 29 framed items (2 crates).

Brochure (PDF) (98 k)

• Images of Black Wyoming (PDF) (108 k)
• The Bozeman Trail Diaries of Robert Dunlap Clarke (PDF) (157 k)
• Japanese-American Girl Scouts at Heart Mountain Relocation Camp, 1942-1945 (PDF) (143 k)
• Landscape of the Range (PDF) (138 k)
• J. K. Moore (PDF) (197 k)
• Photographers of Wyoming (PDF) (133 k)
• More Pronghorn Than People (PDF) (96 k)
• In Pursuit of Equality (PDF) (111 k)
• Rural Images (PDF) (114 k)
• Hell on Wheels: Union Pacific Railroad Towns in Wyoming (PDF) (95 k)
• University of Wyoming (PDF) (114 k)
• The Virginian 1902-2002 (PDF) (99 k)
• Washakie: Through the Lens of Time (PDF) (102 k)
• Wyoming Stock Growers Association (PDF) (107 k)
• Wyoming Water (PDF) (149 k)
• Wyoming Women (PDF) (182 k)

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