Old west photos.
Cowboy around the Hoodlum Wagon Spur Ranch, Texas, 1910
Judging by the saddle style, this unidentified cowboy was working in the late 1870s or 1880s. In his holster, he carries a Colt model 1873 single action revolver with hard rubber grips, and he has looped his left arm around a Winchester model 1873 carbine in a saddle scabbard. On the back of the photo is the light pencil inscription "Indian fighter."
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Snow Tunnel ~ On the Ouray and Silverton Toll Rd ~ Colorado ~ 1888
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I guess I can only post 3 pictures at a time.
1899 Concord, Michigan "Buggy & Wagon Shop"
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Thankfully someone took the time to photograph this type of beauty - April 1937. Buttermilk Junction, Martin County, IN.
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1887 - West Center Street, Anaheim, California Now we have Disneyland here!
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In 1906, a massive magnitude 7.9 earthquake ruptured the entire San Andreas Fault in Northern California. That is a huge running crack in the ground. Now they are building houses right on the line as fast as the boards can be delivered. Hmmmm..
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This is what real cowboys looked like in 1887.0
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Some of the toughest, bravest people we know of. They gave it their all to go west and start a new life. This wagon train is in eastern Colorado in 1880.
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This moose team belonged to W.R. Day. Both were found as infants near Baptiste Lake in 1910 and were reared by bottle and broken to drive by Mr. Day at Athabasca Landing during the winter of 1910. Mr. Day and the moose team hauled mail and supplies.
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In the American Civil War, soldiers were required to have at least four opposing front teeth, so that they could open a gunpowder pouch. Some draftees had their front teeth removed to avoid service. In our day they just jumped the border into Canada.
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Here we have a tired old prospector during the Klondike Gold Rush.
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Lulu Parr - Her skill with the gun caught the attention of Pawnee Bill, who signed her to his show in 1903. She left that show but came back in 1911. By that time, Pawnee Bill had joined Buffalo Bill's show. Buffalo Bill was so in awe of Lulu's willingness to ride unbroken ponies that he presented her with an ivory-handled Colt single-action revolver, engraved with "Buffalo Bill Cody to Lulu Parr—1911." A KIND OF PARR FOR THE COARSE?
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View from the driver's seat of a 40 mule team. These rigs were used to haul Borax out of Boron, CA and then loaded onto railroads for manufacturing. All this so you could do the laundry! Man, that's a lot of horses!
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Hoops had to be removed before taking your seat in a carriage and then they were hooked onto the back of the carriage.
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Omaha Board of Trade in Mountains near Deadwood, SD April 26, 1889. It was created in 1889 by Grabill, John C. H., photographer. The picture presents procession of stagecoaches loaded with passengers coming down a mountain road.
These were sent to my wife by a friend of hers.
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There's a lot of great old western pictures and good reading on this site.
https://www.directexpose.com/photos-old-wild-west-believe-exist/0 -
Awesome Bubba!...Thanks for posting them... 3 -
Fantastic photos! I love how they're in focus. 0 -
Great pictures Bubba Jr. Thanks for the post. 3 -
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Very cool. Thanks Bubba. 0 -
Thanks for sharing those, Bubba. My wife's GGG Grandfather crossed the Oregon Trail in 1844(the second year it was open)bound for the Willamette Valley of Oregon. 0 -
That first photo reminded me ... my wife's great-aunt Emelia worked on a dude ranch in Wyoming and we have a photo much like that, hat tipped back leaning against a rail fence. My grandmother was the first lady Park Ranger in America and she'd take horseback riders on tours through Yellowstone, and stop them for rest at a dude ranch. It turned out it was the SAME dude ranch during the same years. She probably knew my wife's great aunt all those years ago!
I tell her "it was meant to be" and she reminds me of the Mathematics of Very Large Numbers. Pfffft. She's a spoil sport. 0 -
Wonder if they would have quarantined because of China virus? Ohh that's right, they had small pox, typhoid, scurvy ect. ect. less destructive diseases.
REALLY love those old pictures, time machine for a week would be nice.0 -
Great pictures, thanks! 0 -
Amazing how life has changed in such a short period of time. Makes one wonder how our world will look 140 years from now. We can not imagine the future, just like the people in those pictures had no idea what life would be like in 2020. The freedom and adventure in those days appeals to me. 3 -
I noticed that, mount seems to set up decent too.forgemonkey said:Love the ‘Skewbald’ horse in #1 photo. ,,,,,,,,0 -
I hiked a lot of that trail and at the top of the steep downhills there are stumps with grooves burned into them where they put ropes around the tree and lowered the wagons down the slopes. Twin grooves worn into flat bedrock where the wheels had rolled. Amazing stuff. 0 -
Bubba Jr. said:In 1906, a massive magnitude 7.9 earthquake ruptured the entire San Andreas Fault in Northern California. That is a huge running crack in the ground. Now they are building houses right on the line as fast as the boards can be delivered. Hmmmm..
The line of rocks is one of many rock walls in the East Bay Area that date back over a 1000yrs. No one knows who built them or why. The latest theory is Chinese explorers/settlers, after the discovery of Chinese wheel shaped boat anchors made of stone along the coast that date to about the same time.Where the San Andreas fault runs out into the ocean, south of SF, there was a deep ravine where the earth cracked open. When I was a kid back in the 60's, they filled it in, and built an elementary school dead center of it, and houses all around the school. They changed the name of the school to Roosevelt, and it's still there.
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Great photos thanks for posting. I love the old time photos.
The cowboy in the first picture, an 1873 Colt and an 1873 Winchester, that about says it all.
Love the photo of the moose team hauling the mail.
Thanks a lot love these old photos.0
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