/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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Two common methods of hauling water in Old Mexico and southwestern United States. Texas, 1905.
2 Comments
2024/11/08
15:06 UTC
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"Open Range Branding" Montana, c. 1900, Charles E. Morris Collection, Montana History Portal
2 Comments
2024/11/09
02:01 UTC
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Pah-Ute (Paiute) group, near Cedar, Utah (c. 1872)
6 Comments
2024/11/07
19:34 UTC
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Bat Masterson and wife of 30 years Emma Walter (1921, shortly before Bat’s death)
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2024/11/07
18:06 UTC
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A rider fills his keg from a desert well 30 miles north of Palomas, Arizona. His horse refreshes himself nearby. 1907.
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2024/11/06
14:49 UTC
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Crapper Jack's Saloon - Cripple Creek, Colorado (c. 1895-1899)
18 Comments
2024/11/06
07:15 UTC
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Main Street, Bannack, Montana Territory, c. 1865, Unidentified Photographer, Courtesy of Montana Historical Society Library and Archives, Montana State Library History Portal
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2024/11/04
19:03 UTC
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Daguerreotype of Lyman Alvinson Rundell in mining-themed shirt, circa 1855.
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2024/11/04
18:58 UTC
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The Arizona Club, circa 1907, was one of the first permanent buildings in Las Vegas, Nevada.
18 Comments
2024/11/03
16:09 UTC
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Tombstone (c. 1880)
9 Comments
2024/11/03
15:51 UTC
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The intersection of Second & Main Street in Taylor, Texas, 1883. On the right corner is the First National Bank, which would later become Taylor National Bank.
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2024/11/03
15:50 UTC
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Child (name of Clara Barret) sits with her dog and cat at her family’s Oklahoma ranch, circa 1903-1904, Frank E. Downs, Florence E. D. Muzzy Scrapbook, NYPL Digital Collection
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2024/11/03
15:41 UTC
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John Grabill's photography wagon and horse parked in front of Castle Rock (c. 1888)
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2024/11/02
18:33 UTC
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"Little," Oglala Lakota leader (1890)
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2024/11/01
17:44 UTC
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Miles City, Montana, (1881) "The coming of the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1881 predetermined that Miles City should become, and still is, a leading cattle market."
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2024/10/30
13:07 UTC
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Virgil Earp (c. 1890-1905)
13 Comments
2024/10/28
23:21 UTC
23:21 UTC
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Jesse Evans and possibly Samantha Fallon. Jesse was a notable figure in the Old West, particularly known for his association with Billy the Kid. Evans had a reputation as a skilled gunfighter and was involved in various incidents during his time, including with both lawmen and rival gangs.
14 Comments
2024/10/28
18:41 UTC
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The face of Outlaw Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum as he was about to be hanged in Clayton, New Mexico, 1901. However, the rope they used was too long, and the botched hanging resulted in Ketchum being decapitated.
76 Comments
2024/10/28
18:58 UTC
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Tom Horn braiding a rope in the Laramie County jail office in Cheyenne, 1902.
14 Comments
2024/10/27
18:54 UTC
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George W. Titsworth (c. 1909) - Colorado lawman
9 Comments
2024/10/27
18:29 UTC
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Geronimo departing for Florida from Fort Bowie, Arizona (1895)
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2024/10/26
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Wild Bill Hickok was inducted into the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Hall of Fame in 1979 as a charter member.
8 Comments
2024/10/25
16:35 UTC
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"Well-heeled and well-armed Private Frank L. Schmid joined the Texas Rangers in 1886 and was in Ranger Company D when he was shot in the line of duty on August 16, 1889. Unfortunately, he never fully recovered and died from complications from his wounds on June 17, 1893."
23 Comments
2024/10/24
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Two Navajo on horseback near the base of Shiprock in New Mexico, 1914.
3 Comments
2024/10/21
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Charles A. Siringo was a cowboy, Pinkerton detective, and author. Sitting with cane & gun (c. 1900)
9 Comments
2024/10/21
12:59 UTC
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Shown here in this undated photo from his buffalo hunting days, Bill Tilghman (at left) was approached by Bat Masterson to serve as a deputy sheriff from 1878, a job he served admirably until 1884, which earned him the respect to work in various law enforcement jobs for the rest of his life.
7 Comments
2024/10/21
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