Photographs Of Frontier Life In The West

http://www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/frontier_pictures.html ^

[navysealdad]

Between 1887 and 1892, John C.H. Grabill sent 188 photographs to the Library of Congress for copyright protection. Grabill is known as a western photographer, documenting many aspects of frontier life & hunting, mining, western town landscapes and white settlers’ relationships with Native Americans.

[MeshugeMikey]

a lot of astonishing images of a very very different world.

My grandfather was allegedly born under a wagon somewhere in Kansas..but I have no other details sad to say.

Thank you.

[PLMerite]

ping for later.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

For later.

[exit82]

Excellent photos.

Residents of Sturgis in 1890 could not imagine their main street would one day host thousands of motorcycles way in the future.

[berdie]

I used to think I would have been happy living in those days. In fact, I longed for them.

Today, not so much. Those folks were tough.

[expat1000]

Fascinating!

[MurrietaMadman]

The Deadwood Coach riders do have a bureaucratic look about them.

[cornelis]

ROUND UP:

[captmar-vell]

nice, thanks for the link

[MeshugeMikey]

aha One of Harry Reids Ancestors!???

[The Great RJ]

Photographer Paul Horsted took historical photos from the Black Hills and exactly duplicated the view in present time publishing them in a book, The Black Hills Yesterday and Today. Link to photos

[Inyo-Mono]

I have seen a few of those photos published in various publications over the years. Thanks for posting.

[School of Rational Thought]

love pictures like these. Was on Google Earth looking at what I could find in present day. Many of Deadwood building still there.

[logitech]

ping

[fieldmarshaldj]

Couldn’t find the 1889 City Hall, perhaps demolished.

[cornelis]

Yes.

[minnesota_bound]

The ancestors must have ‘tumbled’ in the ‘weeds’

[cherry]

thx.....very interesting....

[goat granny]

If they had indoor plumbing, I’d go for living back then...