Here is the #westernwriter inspiration omnibus of Old West images posted during the past week on twitter. Feel free to follow me there @rdscheer. Click each pic to enlarge.
| Batoche, Saskatchewan, 1885 |
| "Moonlight Tower," arc light tower, San Jose, California, 1881 |
| Curecanti Needle, Colorado, c1884 |
| Bozeman Pass, Montana, c1884 |
| Canadian Pacific Railway construction, Fraser River valley, British Columbia, 1881 |
| Hanging of a horse thief, Oregon, 1900 |
| Parade, Deadwood, South Dakota, 1888 |
Image credits: Wikimedia Commons
Coming up: Old West glossary
I'm fascinated by shots of Deadwood. It's always more modern and colorful than I had imagined it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the pics, Ron.
That horse thief hanging reminds me of the setting in Once upon a time in the west where the man is hung with his brother trying to hold him up.
ReplyDeleteBatoche, Saskatchewan, looks a bit like my old home town in Utah in the 1930's.
ReplyDeleteThe horse thief hanging reminds me of "The Oxbow Incident"
ReplyDeleteI'll have to watch the next time I drive over Bozeman Pass to see If I can tell where that photo was taken.
ReplyDeleteThe picture of the hanging of the horse thief is chilling. The whole thing seems like a routine affair for those on the scene. Since this picture was taken in 1900 it mustn't have been long before Oregon and other states outlawed hanging for a lesser crime like stealing a horse, or rustling.
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