Here is this week's omnibus of #westernwriter inspirations posted each day at twitter [click to enlarge]. If you are on twitter, you can follow me @rdscheer.
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| Southern Pacific depot, Oakland, California, 1867. Artist: William Keith (1838-1911) |
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| Mount Bonnell, Texas, 1889 |
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| Steamer at Aberdeen, Washington, 1888 |
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| Navajo, Arizona. Photo by John Karl Hillers, c1879 | |
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| First jail, Broken Bow, Nebraska, 1886 |
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| Signal Butte, near Big Spring, Texas, 1889 |
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| General store, Grand Forks, North Dakota, 1880 |
Picture credits: Wikimedia Commons
Coming up: Glenn Ford, William Holden,
The Man From Colorado (1949)
I've been playing Red Dead Redemption lately, a western themed video game. Looks like they took their train depots and their general stores from these exact pictures. Interesting.
ReplyDeleteGood to hear; similar to the efforts of Hollywood to get the details right in more recent westerns.
DeleteThey are fine pictures indeed, each one having its own story. Apologies for my absence of late, Ron. I'm slowly getting back to blogging.
ReplyDeleteBest to you and yours.
David, you have been missed.
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