Here we have an immersive collection of decent photos of the American "Wild West," showcasing famous faces and regular folk as they made their way through one of the most energetic periods of change in US history. From cold-blooded killers to badge-toting lawmen to salt-of-the-earth homesteaders, these pics give us a glimpse of a
time long past -- and show that back then, people wore many hats (literally and figuratively).
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Group of men assembled on the main street of Barkerville, preparing to leave on gold escort. Barkerville, Colony of British Columbia. 1865, Southern Canada
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One of the last cowboys of the dying Old West chilling in Texas, 1910
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Interior of the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City, Kansas, sometime between 1870 and 1885
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Robert McGee, the man who was scalped as a child by Native American warriors, 1864
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A family during their pursuit of a homestead in Montana. Taken in Nebraska, 1886, Nebraska
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Billly The Kid (top hat) with ‘The Regulators’: Fred Waite, Henry Brown, and Dick Brewer, 1877, New Mexico
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Texas Rangers, Rio Grande City 1887
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Gold rush boomtown of Barkerville, British Columbia. Circa 1869, Southern Canada
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In the 1800’s prostitution was legal in Arizona and many other states . The state of Arizona profited from bordellos through licensing, taxes and fines with prostitution in the 1800’s
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Homesteaders with covered wagons travel to the American west circa 1890.
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Seth Kinman a mountain man with great hunting skills. Sitting in a chair that he made for President Andrew Johnson. 1865, California
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Homesteaders in Nebraska in 1888, Nebraska
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In late 1887, Calamity Jane Canary and cowboy Teddy Blue Abbott, wearing each other’s hats, shared drinks at a saloon in Gilt Edge, Montana, where she was living for the winter, Montana. Calamity Jane was a notorious whiskey drunk. She sold her own daughter off into sex trafficking to pay off her bar tab. She also never bathed and smelled like a filthy, rotten hobo. Not many people in the Wild West became famous for how shitty they were, but Calamity Jane was right up there with Jesse James and William Bonney.
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Crow’s Nest Pass Lumber Co. lumberjacks on a log jam in Bull River. British Columbia. ca 1910 – 1914, Southern Canada
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James Brown Miller(aka Killin’ Jim) a hired killer of the west. Skilled gunfighter that served both as a lawman and outlaw. 1887, Texas. He was said to have killed 12 people during gunfights. Miller was referred to by some by the alias “Deacon Jim” because he regularly attended the Methodist Church, and he did not smoke or drink. He was lynched in Ada, Oklahoma, in 1909 along with three other men, by a mob of residents angry that he had assassinated a former deputy U.S. marshal.
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Wild Bill (left) Texas Jack (standing) and Buffalo Bill (right), September, 1873.
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“Old Flagstaff, Arizona” in 1883
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Harriet, Elizabeth, Lucie, and Ruth Chrisman at their sod house in Custer County, Nebraska, 1886.
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A miner’s cabin made from barrels in Tonopah, Nevada, c.1900
