Oil Painting

I've added a scan of the only image known to exist of Russel Farnham to the blog. It's an oil painting done by Chester Harding and owned by the Missouri Historical Society. It's reposited in the Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, but it was for a long time displayed in the museum of the Missouri Historical Society with this inscription: "Walked from Oregon to St Petersburg, 1813-1814." That is something of a Tall Tale, but it shows that for years people have been fascinated by the story of Russel Farnham's remarkable journey from Oregon to St Petersburg Russia.