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A covered wagon, the vehicle of the great western migration. This family will live in their wagon while they search for a new home on the untamed American frontier. Loup Valley, Nebraska. 1886.
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A party leads their horses across the hot, slick rocks of Navajo Mountain. Utah. 1909.
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Riders stop at a Native American reservation. A dog is being roasted over the cooking pot atFort Belknap Reservation, Montana in 1906.Wikimedia Commons
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An abducted child among his Apache captors. When 11-year-old Jimmy McKinn was rescued and returned to his family, he fought it bitterly, wanting to stay among the Apache. Arizona. 1886.
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Real cowboys, of course, herded cows. Here, one readies his lasso as he looks out on his herd. Genesee, Kansas. 1902.
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Cowboys branding a calf. Montana. Date unspecified.
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A massive haul of 40,000 buffalo hides stored in a hide yard. Dodge City, Kansas. 1878.
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Coaches travel down a carriage road. Pikes Peak, 1911.
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Outlaw John Sontag lies dying on the ground after a shootout with a posse. Stone Corral, California. 1893.
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A mountainside camp set up for miners. San Juan County, Colorado. 1875.
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John Heath, after joining in a robbery that turned into a massacre, is lynched by a mob. Tombstone, Arizona. 1884.
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Buckboard wagons cross a river. San Carlos, Arizona. 1885.
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A rider in the desert refills his keg with water from a well. Arizona. 1907.
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Apaches, including the war hero Geronimo, after their surrender to General Miles. The train behind them will carry them into exile. Nueces River, Texas. 1886
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Hauling water across the countryside. Encinal, Texas. 1905.
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Men gamble over a game of Faro inside a saloon. Bisbee, Arizona. 1900.
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A man, at the site of a new town, looks for a lot. Guthrie, Oklahoma. 1889.
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The first blacksmith shop in town. Guthrie, Oklahoma. 1889.
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Land in a new territory is auctioned off in this tent. California. 1904.
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The first house built in Dodge City, a sod home built in 1872. Dodge City, Kansas. 1913.
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Men outside a crude ranch play poker. Arizona. Circa 1887-1889.
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Inside a bar at the Table Bluff Hotel and Saloon. Humboldt County, California. 1889.
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A town starts to grow. The crowd that has gathered is bidding on land that is being auctioned off. Anadarko, Oklahoma. 1901.
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Men lay down track for a new railroad, connecting the wild frontier with the world. Arizona. 1898.
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A gold rush town in Dakota. Deadwood, Dakota. 1876.
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A little girl feeds the chickens. Sun River, Montana. 1910.
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A family outside their home. A Native American servant holds their child. New Mexico. 1895.
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A saloon on the streets of an Old West town. Hazen, Nevada. 1905.
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The Klondyke Dance Hall and saloon. Seattle, Washington. 1909.
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Typical downtown street of a town on the American frontier. Corinne, Utah. 1869.
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A cow carries seven children to school. The caption, whether in jest or in earnest, claims that carrying the children to school is this cow's "daily duty." Okanogan, Washington. 1907.
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A teacher and her students stand in front of a sod schoolhouse. Woods County, Oklahoma. 1895.
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A town gets flowing water for the first time. Perry, Oklahoma. 1893.
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Correspondent Fred W. Loring poses in front of his mule before heading back home to write about what he'd seen out west. Loring was killed by Apaches less than 48 hours after this picture was taken. San Bernadino, California. 1871.
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A Pony Express rider on horseback. 1861.
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Cowboys herd cattle across a river. Missouri. 1910.
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A group of trappers and hunters outside their cabin. Brown's Basin, Arizona. 1908.
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Mine workers coming out of the mine shaft. Virginia City, Nevada. Circa 1867-1888.
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Men cork champagne at the Buena Vista Vinicultural Society. Sonoma, California. Circa 1870-1879.
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A fishing camp set up by some Chinese settlers of the American frontier. Point San Pedro, California. 1889.
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Shoshone tribe members dance on a Native American reservation while soldiers look on. Ft. Washakie, Wyoming. 1892.
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Apaches deliver hay to American settlers. Fort Apache, Arizona. 1893.
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An Indian Training School teaches blacksmithing. Forest Grove, Oregon. 1882.
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Judge Roy Bean's courthouse, which doubled as a saloon. Langtry, Texas. 1900.
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Cheyenne natives, after trying to escape from their reservation and return to their home land, are held prisoner. Kansas. 1879.
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The execution of a man on the gallows. Prescott, Arizona. 1877.
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U.S. Deputy Marshalls pose with the clerical force. Perry, Oklahoma. 1893.
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A sand storm moves across farmland. Midland, Texas. 1894.
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