Drawing by Vischer depicting frontiersmen and Indians at the first overland stage route between San Diego and Fort Yuma, Temecula, ca.1865-1871

Photograph of a drawing by Vischer depicting frontiersmen and Indians at the first overland stage route between San Diego and Fort Yuma, Temecula, ca.1865-1871. Two cowboys are shown at center, one of them leaning on their horse, which is pictured between them. Farther left, two Native Americans sit by a rock, talking with the cowboys. In the background, more cowboys can be seen on their horses, talking to a man on foot. To the left, a Native American family looks on at the scene, standing in front of a one-story adobe house with a thatched roof. Enlarged from CHS-2999. Depicts the home of Alesandro from the book, Ramona, by Helen Hunt Jackson. Photoprint reads: "Southern California Traffic. A Scene of Frontier Life".