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Amazing Old Photos From The Wild West
The Wild West was a time of range wars, railroad wars, lawless desperadoes, vigilante law men, and Cowboys and Indians strife. Given little attention during these years, however, are the things that just regular working class people were up to.
Farmers, fishers, homesteaders, housewives, and laborers. Click NEXT to enjoy a rare look at civilian life in the wild west.
San Francisco, California
Moored schooners masts form a wall around the dock (1900).
Shoshone Canyon And Falls, Idaho
A member of Clarence King’s Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel, surveying from atop a boulder (1868).
Red Buttes, Wyoming
A noon meal in Ferdinand V. Hayden’s camp of the U.S. Geological Survey (1870).
John Doyle’s Ranch, Arizona
An Arizona Poker Party (1887).
Round Pond, Oklahoma
At Work In McDonalds Brickyard (1894).
Holbrook, Arizona
Some of Aztecs Punchers, Aztec Land & Cattle Company (1877).
Baird, California
Dragnet Fishing, or Seine-haul fishing (1908.)
Nueces River, Texas
A band of Apache Indian prisoners, at a rest stop beside the Southern Pacific Railway (1886).
Winslow, Arizona
Atlantic and Pacific Railway cars on converging tracks (1890).
Forest Grove, Oregon
Blacksmithing at the Indian Training School (1882).
Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota
Brigadier General, Nelson A. Miles viewing a hostile Indian camp (1891).
Witchita National Forest, Oklahoma
Buffalo grazing near the buffalo yards (1908).
Black Hills, Dakota Territories
Cinching and loading a pack mule with flour during starvation march of General George Crook’s expedition into the Black Hills (1876).
Ortonville, Minnesota
Civil war veterans on the 4th of July (1880).
Oklahoma Territory
Claims bought and sold, attorneys and surveyors stand in front of a U.S. Land Office (1894).
Clifton, Arizona
Built by the original owners of the copper mines at Clifton, the Lezinsky Bros. (1881).
Pike’s Peak, Colorado
Climbing Pike’s Peak, Colorado, in winter, rounding Windy Point (1890).
San Carlos, Arizona
Co. 10th Infantry, crossing the Gila river in buckboard wagons (1885).
Reno, Nevada
Campaigning from an open touring car decorated with American flags (1910).
Plains Of Dakota Territory
Column of cavalry, artillery, and wagons, commanded by General George A. Custer (1874).
Fort Keogh, Montana
A crude building under construction at Fort Keogh (1889).
Arizona Territory
Dedication ceremonies of the Roosevelt Dam (1911).
West Of Omaha, Nebraska
The train awaits the party of Eastern capitalists, newspapermen, and other prominent figures invited by the railroad executives (1866).
Canyon de Chelle, Arizona
A member of the Wheeler Expedition sketching ancient ruins in the lower part of Canyon De Chelle (1873).
Dodge City, Kansas
Left to right; Chas Bassett, W.H. Harris, Wyatt Earp, Luke Short, L. McLean, Bat Masterson, Neal Brown (1890).
Indian Territory, Oklahoma
Drawing rations at the agency on issue day, Indians form a line while officers wives and issuing agent stand in center with sacks of flower at Camp Supply (1871).
Humboldt River Canyon, Nevada
Campsite and train of the Central Pacific Railroad at the foot of the mountains (1868).
New Mexico Territory
A family poses with dog, Indian domestic, and young children outside a log cabin (1895).
San Francisco, California
Italian fishermen mending nets on wharf at foot of Union Street. Boats are lined up on the wharf for painting and repairs (1891).
San Francisco, California
Circular crab nets and large fish nets are spread out to dry. A three masted ship is on the horizon and small feluccas thrust protruding masts and raffs above the wharf’s railing (1891).
Sacramento, California
Frank E. Webner, rider for the Pony Express (1861).
Prescott, Arizona
Fred. W. Loring in his campaign costume, taken about 48 hours before he was murdered by Apache-Mohaves (1871).
Oklahoma Territory
Children doing their chores, gathering Apples, Peaches, Plums, Pears, Grapes, and Melons on an Oklahoma farm (1900).
Fort Laramie, Wyoming
General William T. Sherman and commissioners in council with Indian chiefs at Fort Laramie (1867).
Camp Apache, Arizona Territory
General landscape view of the corral and surrounding area (1877).
Goldhill, Nevada
General view of the town and mines (1867)
Near The Mexican Border
Government pack mules, with packers (1883).
Sun River, Montana
Little girl feeding chickens against background of house, buckboard wagon, and ridge of plateau (1910).
Great Sioux Reservation, Dakota Territories
Horse-drawn stretcher carrying a wounded man from the Battle of Slim Buttes (1876).
Little Heart River, Dakota Territories
Hunting and camping party of Custer and invited guests at Fort A. Lincoln (1875).
Corvallis, Oregon
In Wind Cave, 350 ft. below the surface of Odd Fellows Hall (1897).
Fort Washakie, Wyoming
Indian reception of President Chester A. Arthur at Fort Washakie (1883).
Eastern Oregon
Men working on the Umatilla reclamation project in Eastern Oregon. Horse-drawn carts, a train, and a crane are diverse technological applications in this irrigation project (1907).
Aquarius Plateau, Utah
John K. Hillers, photographer with the John Wesley Powell Geological Survey, working with his negatives (1872).
Promontory, Utah
The joining of the tracks for the first transcontinental railroad (1869)
Ft. Snelling Minnesota
Junction of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, headquarters of the 25th infantry (1886).
Yosemite Valley, California
The first built in Yosemite Valley, men sitting on top of stumps in front of their finished product (1895).
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel, passengers arrive and stage coaches are met by other vacationers on the hotel veranda (1899)
Virginia City, Nevada
Miners working inside the comstock mine (1867)
Lewistown, Montana
A Montana ranch, near Lewistown, used for mining or stock raising (1872).
Mormon Lake, Arizona
Covered wagon caravan of Mormon Emigrants (1879).
Mormon Lake, Arizona
Two women and their small children pose before a building at what is now known as Mormon Lake (1887).
Washington Territory
N. P. Railway, shipping their first cargo of halibut caught in Pugent Sounds by crew of schooner (1888).
Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota
Officers in a tent preparing food over an open fire (1890).
Orena, Nevada
Montezuma silver smelting works. Ox teams and men resting (1867).
Arizona Territory
Ox train used to transport supplies (1883).
Kearney, Nebraska
Parade of U.S. Infantry (1888).
Canyon De Chelly, Arizona
A man with parts of his wagon and equipment on the muddy floor of Canyon De Chelly, Navajo Reservation (1903).
West Of Omaha, Nebraska
Press representatives accompanying the Excursion Party (1866).
West Of Rio Grande, Mexican Border
Rebuilding Monument 40, under the direction of the U.S. section of the International Boundary Commission (1892).
San Francisco, California
Reeling up a gill net to dry (1891).
Arizona Territory
The residence of G.L. Rule, sod building and cabin in the background, family in the foreground (1898).
South Dakota
The return of Casey’s scouts from the fight at Wounded Knee (1890).
Genessee, Kansas
A cowboy with his lasso ready, looks beyond the herd on the open range to his fellow cowpunchers waiting on the horizon (1902).
Fort Custer, Montana
Saber Exercises, Troop List Cavalry, an Indian troop of U.S. soldiers (1892).
Monterey, California
Sardine industry, wharf and sun dry process (1908).
Little Big Horn River, Montana
Scene of General Custers last stand, looking in the direction of the ford and Indian village (1877).
Fort Keogh, Montana
A skating party underway, at Fort Keogh (1889).
Fort Ringgold, Texas
Steamer Bessie on the Rio Grande River at Fort Ringgold, en route to Brownsville (1890).
Fort Keogh, Montana
The Good Old Days Canteen at Fort Keogh (1890).
Beaver Head River, Montana
The overland stage road between Ogden and Helena crossing the Beaver Head River at Point of Rocks (1871).
Bismark, North Dakota
The Rosebud, historic old Missouri River boat that went up the River from Bismark, N.D. to Coalbanks in Montana (1878).
East Fork Rivers, Wyoming
En route with pack train upon the trail between the Yellowstone and East Fork rivers (1871).
Carson Desert, Nevada
Timothy O’Sullivan’s ambulance wagon and portable darkroom, used during the King Survey rolls across the sand dunes (1867).
Brown’s Basin, Arizona Territory
Trappers and hunters in the Four Peaks country on Brown’s Basin. (1908).
Oklahoma Territory
Troop C. 5th Cavalry, which arrested boomers and squatters (1888).
Sun River, Montana
Turning over the first sod on the homestead (1908).
Overland Trails, California
Typical stage of the Concord type, used by express companies on the overland trails, soldiers guard from atop (1869).
Black Hills, Dakota Territories
Surgeon and topographer, Valentine T. McGillycuddy, on hunger march with General Crook’s expedition to the Black Hills (1876).
Pine Ridge, South Dakota
Villa Of Brule, the great hostile Indian camp on River Brule near Pine Ridge (1891).
Wyoming Territory
A wooden jailhouse in the Wyoming territory (1893).
