Photo Gallery: Frontier Life in the West - Feb 23, 2011

[kmp77]

Wow, some amazing photos just posted in the Denver post!

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2011/02/23/from-the-archive-frontier-life-in-the-west/2713/

 

[Faerluna]

Those are awesome! Thanks for sharing that.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

Oh man, that was fun.

Thanks for posting.

 

[Hostile]

I could look at that stuff all day and never tire of it.

 

[burmafrd]

Its been a while since I looked at photographs like that.
This is the kind of thing I saw while I was being taught history in school.
wanna bet no current students are shown these?

 

[5Stars]

Absoutely amazing how life was way back then! Those people never had it as good as some of us do today...yet sometimes we take things for granted.

 

[UnoDallas]

Those people never had it as good as some of us do today

well I think I would have faired well in those days - born in the wrong century

yet sometimes we take things for granted

very true

I been in the HomeStake mine over a mile underground

I know the whole area well since I went to school in Rapid City

been all over the Hills - love it up there

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Chalk up another person who could spend hours looking at those. Pretty sobering to see the only horse left alive, or unclaimed, after Little Bighorn.

Photo #50, what's happening there? Are those logs being thrown down, or are they being exploded up?

 

[big dog cowboy]

I could look at that stuff all day and never tire of it.

No kidding. Those are pretty amazing.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Great pics.

On pic 3, you sub out the cows for bikes and Sturgis looks almost the same then as today! :laugh2:

Look at pic 11. They are telling you the indian's names. Number 9, should slap his parents.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I think I might be related to some of those miners. :

 

[Arch Stanton]

Fabulous pictures. Thanks for sharing that article.

 

[Longboysfan]

At least they are saved.
Great pictures.

 

[CowboyWay]

Awesome post. thanks for sharing. A couple years ago, the Denver post had a series of photos from the war in Iraq/Afghanistan. They were so good, it got me interested in photography, and I spent quite a bit on a whole camera/lens set up.

Great stuff.

 

[vta]

Even the dog is attentive. Awesome.

 

[CowboyWay]

Notice how there aren't any fat people back then? I only saw one big guy in all those pictures. By contrast, go out and take 50 photos today in the city and tell me how many fat people you see.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Notice how there aren't any fat people back then? I only saw one big guy in all those pictures. By contrast, go out and take 50 photos today in the city and tell me how many fat people you see.

You also didn't see McDonalds and KFC on every corner. I wonder if that is just a coincidence.

 

[WV Cowboy]

My brother is an "Imaging Specialist" for the Smithsonian Institute Library in Wash D.C.

I think restoring, archiving, and saving pictures like this is a large part of what they do.

 

[Warick]

I agree with Hos, I could look at these pictures all day, and not tire. It's amazing how much has changed in little over a 100 years, and to get a glimpse of how life was back then.

 

[Rynie]

The train-nerd inside me is happy with these earlier train photos. Bravo!