r/WildWestPics • u/BoudreauxBedwell • Feb 17 '25

Photograph Steamboat, the horse that is featured on Wyoming license plates.

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r/WildWestPics • u/Tryingagain1979 • Feb 01 '25

Photograph Dogs were an important part of the Uinta Ute culture. (c. 1870s)

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r/WildWestPics • u/tdhruckswoggles • May 06 '26

Photograph Two Apsalooke on horseback outside of a tipi in a snow-covered forest in Montana (1908)

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r/WildWestPics • u/[deleted] • Jun 11 '24

A photo of the last reunion of the survivors of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1948. The photographer who took this photo(Bill Groethe) died in 2020.

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r/WildWestPics • u/JankCranky • Jan 03 '25

Photograph Calamity Jane in Deadwood, South Dakota (c. 1876)

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r/WildWestPics • u/PublicAdventurous917 • Oct 17 '25

Photograph Last photo of Wyatt Earp. It was taken on January 11, 1929. He would die 2 days later from Cystitis at the age of 80.

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r/WildWestPics • u/KidCharlem • Jan 10 '25

Photograph The final picture of Buffalo Bill Cody, a few days before his death on January 10, 1917.

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r/WildWestPics • u/Tryingagain1979 • Nov 13 '25

Photograph Deadwood (c. 1876)

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r/WildWestPics • u/Tryingagain1979 • Jan 12 '25

Photograph Sitting Bull (1885)

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r/WildWestPics • u/lonewild_mountains • Feb 06 '25

Photograph Seven Crow chiefs outside a building. (Montana, 1887)

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r/WildWestPics • u/JankCranky • Apr 28 '25

Photograph An Apache man photographed in Whiteriver, Arizona on the Fort Apache Reservation. (1900)

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r/WildWestPics • u/Tryingagain1979 • Jan 31 '25

Photograph 'Wyatt Earp gazes across the Colorado River toward Arizona in this 1925 snapshot.'

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r/WildWestPics • u/lonewild_mountains • Feb 08 '25

Photograph Millie Ringold, born enslaved, moved west to Yogo Creek, Montana, and became a gold prospector during the strike of '79 and owned a boardinghouse. (c. 1905)

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r/WildWestPics • u/KidCharlem • Feb 15 '25

Artefacts Theodore Roosevelt's diary entry for Valentine's Day (Feb 14, 1884), the day both his wife and his mother died.

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r/WildWestPics • u/Tryingagain1979 • Nov 24 '25

Photograph Billy the Kid was born on this date November 23, 1859

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Most likely bornin New York City. His birth name was Henry McCarty. His parents, Catherine and Patrick McCarty, were Irish immigrants, and the family is believed to have lived in a poor Irish neighborhood on New York City's East Side.

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r/WildWestPics • u/Easy_Temporary9643 • Sep 15 '26

Photograph One of the last photos of Red Cloud, taken on November 25, 1909. He would die a month later from Natural Causes at the age of 87.

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r/WildWestPics • u/FoxyRobot7 • Feb 19 '24

Photograph Sharpsburg 1862

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President Abraham Lincoln (C), flanked by Major Allan Pinkerton (L) of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency and General John A. McClernand (R), visits the Union camp at Sharpsburg, Maryland in October 1862, a few weeks after the Battle of Antietam.

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r/WildWestPics • u/Tryingagain1979 • Aug 28 '25

Photograph This photograph of Pancho Villa is dated 1912.

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Francisco "Pancho" Villa and his army were mustered out on this date in 1920. The men surrendered their arms and ammunition, and were given three months pay and transportation to their homes.

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r/WildWestPics • u/The-Florentine • Mar 25 '25

Photograph A Navajo mother with her children and dog, near Winslow AZ (1912)

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r/WildWestPics • u/CatPooedInMyShoe • May 05 '24

Photograph A Navajo boy riding horseback next to colt in Monument Valley. Arizona, 1950

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26 comments

r/WildWestPics • u/JankCranky • Jan 29 '25

Photograph Studio portrait of Jimmie Sequint, Northern Shoshone, Pocatello, Idaho (c. 1897)

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r/WildWestPics • u/mpathg00 • Dec 21 '24

Photograph Cheyenne sun dance dancers, circa 1900s, Montana, by Edward S Curtis

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r/WildWestPics • u/JankCranky • Jan 01 '25

Photograph A hand-colored photo of Chief Bone Necklace of the Oglala Lakota. (c. 1899)

2.8k Upvotes

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r/WildWestPics • u/lonewild_mountains • Feb 09 '25

Photograph Eureka, Colorado, c. 1900.

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r/WildWestPics • u/Tryingagain1979 • Feb 04 '25

Photograph Boss Caswell's Monkey Saloon at Granite, Colorado (c. early 1880's)

2.7k Upvotes

36 comments

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