13 vignettes on 1 sheet, which are titled “[Emigrant Train] Passing Wind River Mountains; Indians Chasing Buffaloes, Scott's Bluffs; First Night on the Plains; Scene on the Desert; Driving Stock Across the Plains; Sioux Indians; Court House Rock; Chimney Rock; Laramie Peak; California Indians; Mouth of Ash Hollow; Devil's Gate; Castle Rock."

Postally used, without stamp or postmark, addressed on verso to Rev. James D. Butler, Norwich, Connecticut. George Holbrook Baker was a Forty-Niner who worked in mining camps before becoming a Sacramento merchant, a successful newspaper artist and San Francisco lithographer. The last copy of this letter sheet sold at PBA Galleries was in 1998.