The Old West

 C. P. Rich: Holding down a lot in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, ca. 1889

  

 J. M. McMurry: Makah Indians from Nee-oh Bay resting on the beach at Port Townsend, Washington, while en route for the hop fields up Pudget-Sound, ca. 1890

  

 John K. Hillers at work with his negatives. In camp, Aquarius Plateau, Utah Territory. 

Hillers was a photographer with the John Wesley Powell Geological Survey, ca. 1872

   

 Looking For A Town Lot. Guthrie, Indian Territory [Oklahoma], ca. 1889

  

 Ore teams on a dusty road, Pinal County, Arizona Territory, ca. 1897

  

 Stanton G. Smith: A rider fills his keg from a desert well 30 miles north of 

Palomas, Arizona Territory. His horse refreshes himself nearby, April 5, 1907

  

 Sunday school, Indians and whites. Indian Territory [Oklahoma], ca. 1900

  

 Teacher and children in front of sod schoolhouse. 

'Woods County, Oklahoma Territory, ca. 1895

[teacher has a surprisingly stylish blouse]

  

The Covered Wagon of the Great Western Migration. 1886 in Loup Valley, Nebraska. A family poses with the wagon in which they live and travel daily during their pursuit of a homestead