“Here the artist has sketched an old-fashioned country scene in one of the wildest portions of the Delaware Valley traversed by the Erie Railway.
“The old covered bridge is of a style frequently seen in that region, which, by the way, is the scene of many of the most stirring incidents in Fenimore Cooper’s famous novel, The Last of the Mohicans.”
—The Erie Railway Tourist, 1874, p. 6.
