/r/WildWestPics
North American wild western images, including but not limited to: cowboys, indigenous peoples, farming, outlaws, loggers, miners, vaqueros, rednecks, roughnecks, ranchers, soldiers, mountain men, surveyors, pioneers, homesteads, scouts, trailblazers and /or everyday life.
North American wild western images, including but not limited to: cowboys, indigenous peoples, farming, outlaws, loggers, miners, vaqueros, rednecks, roughnecks, ranchers, soldiers, mountain men, surveyors, pioneers, homesteads, scouts, trailblazers and /or everyday life.
Include location / date, if known.
Brief history or interesting facts of object or person in picture.
NSFW tags on executions, assassinations, dead or dying bodies, dead or dying animals, blood, gore, gruesome..
General guidelines: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_frontier
1607–1912 (territorial expansion)
1850–1924 (myth of the Old West)
Related history subs:
For western artwork:
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Famous Apache leader Geronimo (1829-1909) who fought both US and Mexican army forces along the US-Mexico border regions for much of the second half of the 19th century.
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An oxen train moving down Main Street in Hico, Hamilton County, 1890.
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Frank Butler: Annie Oakley's Husband, Manager, and Partner in Marksmanship (photo c. 1882)
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A studio portrait of four Apache Scouts (1888)
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Porter Rockwell. He was Brigham Young's bodyguard. "But he was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity." (photo c. 1850)
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North Montezuma Street, Prescott, A.T., 1881
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1878:Dora Hand was accidently shot & killed in Dodge City’s Lady Gay Theater. Bat Masterson led a posse that included Wyatt Earp & Bill Tilghman to track down and catch the suspect; who was an heir to the Kenedy Ranch fortune in Texas. They caught and shot him, but he lived and wasn't prosecuted.
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Joe Lefors was a relentless old west lawman who doggedly pursued outlaws like Butch Cassidy and Tom Horn (photo around 1900)
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Round-Up Wagon and Cook
Round Up wagons, also known as Chuck wagons and their cook(s) would follow cowboys on their cattle drives. Oftentimes a cattle drive would last for hundreds of miles and could take weeks to arrive at their destination. They carried supplies and utensils for making foods and biscuits, and would sometimes have a barrel of water for cooking and drinking. They were also called camp wagons.
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"Alone with the Past" - Two Navajo view the ruins of Casa Blanca in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona - 1913
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Nat Love aka Deadwood Dick
Nat Love, aka Deadwood Dick. He was a cowboy who lived in the Western and Midwestern U.S. He wrote a book about his life and adventures as a cowboy titled: The Life and Adventures of Nat Love. It's a good and interesting read! 🏜🐃🐂🐎🐎
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Photo of outlaw John Sontag; who had just been shot to death. (c. June 11-12 1893.) He was not yet dead when this picture was taken.
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The Railroad Arrives and Ends the Deadwood Stagecoach (Deadwood, South Dakota, 1890) (photo 1890)
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Calamity Jane and Friends in Gilt Edge, Montana (1897)
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'The Three Guardsmen of Oklahoma', (Deputy U.S. Marshal Heck Thomas, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bill Tilghman, Deputy U.S. Marshal Chris Madsen)
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William Frederick Cody (Buffalo Bill) 1887
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Edward Capehart O'Kelley, "the man who killed the man who killed Jesse James." (photo c.1890)
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A steam tractor hauling borax in the Calico Hills of Southern California, circa 1900.
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Olive Oatman: Returned Captive (1857)
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Isom Dart, Cowboy and Bronco-Buster, c. 1890s
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Jesse and Frank James (photo c. 1860's)
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Miner at the Gould and Curry mines on the Comstock Lode, Nevada. (1867)
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Duncan McDonald and Wife. Flathead. ca. 1901-1911. Montana. Photo by N.A. Forsyth. Source - Montana Historical Society.
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Workers excavating for the foundation of the Lampasas County Courthouse in 1882.
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