How the West was REALLY won: Early settlers on the coach to Deadwood and in pow-wows with the natives in newly released 19th century photographs
In grainy black and white photographs, it's the way the Wild West really was.
From hunting, mining and wagon trains to white settlers mixing with native American Indians, life on the frontier is captured movingly by cameraman John C.H. Grabill.
Between 1887 and 1892 he sent 188 photographs to the Library of Congress for copyright protection. Most of his work centred on the then rowdy town of Deadwood in South Dakota.
The famous and the infamous passed through in search of adventure including the legendary Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, George Armstrong Custer, the Sundance Kid and Calamity Jane....
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From hunting, mining and wagon trains to white settlers mixing with native American Indians, life on the frontier is captured movingly by cameraman John C.H. Grabill.
Between 1887 and 1892 he sent 188 photographs to the Library of Congress for copyright protection. Most of his work centred on the then rowdy town of Deadwood in South Dakota.
The famous and the infamous passed through in search of adventure including the legendary Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, George Armstrong Custer, the Sundance Kid and Calamity Jane....