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THE REAL OLD WEST!

Here's some great historical early American photos that give us a true glimpse of how the Old West really was. Surely not all the glamor that Hollywood likes to portray. Pioneers back then really had a difficult time surviving in the harsh conditions.       These photos are rare indeed! A bit of lost history captured by some vintage Black And White 'Kodak Moments'. Enjoy! :)       Cowboys 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'.       Snow Tunnel ~ On the Ouray and Silverton Toll Rd ~ Colorado ~ 1888       1899 Concord, Michigan Buggy & Wagon Shop       Thankful someone took the time to photograph this type of beauty - April 1937. Buttermilk Junction, Martin County, Indiana.       1887 - West Center Street, Anaheim, California. Now we have Disneyland here!       Moser's, Guns, Banjo's, and Mules at the livery stable in East Tennessee around 1890       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.       This is what 'Real Cowboys' looked like in 1887. Not as fancy as on TV, huh!

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.       This moose team belonged to W.R. (Billy/Buffalo Bill) Day. They were found by a Metis near Baptiste Lake, Alberta 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.       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.       Here we have a tired old prospector during the Klondike Gold Rush.       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.'       From the driver's seat of a 40-horse team. These rigs were used to haul Borax out of Boron California & then loaded onto railroads for manufacturing. All this so they could do the laundry! Wow, that's a lot of horses!       Women had to remove their Hoops before taking their seat in a carriage. Hoops were then hooked onto the back of the carriage.       A deer hunter living in a log, 1893. Tough guys live in tough places.       Omaha Board of Trade in mountains near Deadwood, April 26, 1889. It was created in 1889 by John C. H. Grabill, photographer. The picture presents a procession of stagecoaches loaded with passengers coming down a mountain road.       This is a stunning photograph from 1862. The image shows a Civil War ambulance crew removing the wounded from a battlefield. It shows a horse-drawn ambulance, and the Zouave uniforms of this unit.

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