Having left behind the cities and towns they knew and making due in harsh conditions, the settlers of the Old West made history by creating new communities. It’s truly amazing that in a time of such change that photographers were able to capture these moments and tell a story all their own for generations to come.
Daily Reporter staff in front of their office, Utah Territory, 1869.
Tinted photograph of burros hauling lumber in circa 1898 in Colorado.
Frontier school children pile onto the back of a cow, circa 1907.
Photographer Timothy O’Sullivan’s ambulance wagon and portable darkroom inside an ambulance used during the King Survey on the sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nevada, 1867.
San Francisco Bulletin correspondent taking notes on the battlefield near General Gillem’s camp during the Modoc War circa 1872.
U.S. Geological Survey stops for lunch at the chuck wagon, Wyoming Territory, 1870.
Tinted photo of cowboy circa 1898.
Dugout sod house in Oklahoma, 1909.
Pony Express rider, Frank E. Webner, circa 1861.
Union Pacific Railroad ceremony on the 100th meridian approximately 250 miles west of Omaha, Nebraska Territory, 1866.
End of the railroad tracks near Humboldt River Canyon, Nevada. Central Pacific Railroad campsite, 1868.
Tinted photograph of J.L. Niebergall store in Colorado circa 1898. Note the storefront going up right beside this going concern.
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