Time for another omnibus of the week's #westernwriter inspirations posted each day at twitter, where you can follow me if your attention isn't already overloaded @rdscheer. As usual, click a pic to enlarge it.
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| Office and sutler store, Round Valley Agency, California, 1876 |
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| Morrison, Colorado / Denver, South Park, and Pacific RR, c1878 |
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| Rath & Wright's buffalo hide yard, with 40,000 buffalo hides, Dodge City, 1878 |
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| Lt. Col. Eugene M. Baker and army officers, Fort Ellis, Montana Territory 1871 |
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| Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, 1879 |
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| Arapaho camp, Indian Territory, 1870s; photographer, William S. Soule |
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| Freight Team entering Custer, South Dakota, 1876 |
Photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
Coming up: Ray Winstone,
Tracker (2010)
That's a great photograph of the Pacific railroad. I have been reading about America's railroad industry on the internet. There are so many interesting facts and stories about the railroad.
ReplyDeleteThe railroad was a little like the Interstate highway system at the time, in the way it connected farflung and remote places. Reading in the period, you also learn about the cut-throat and monopolistic business practices of the railroad tycoons. Corporate greed today almost pales by comparison.
DeleteIs it the age of those pics, or was it because photography was barely 30 years old, and it was fairly new? I mean those pictures were taken with care and a certain "nod" towards recording the fast disappearing West. Fantastic stuff, each time you look there is something different to see!
ReplyDeletePhotography was so cumbersome and primitive before the Kodak, you were limited to what would hold still for as long as it took to set up and then expose a plate. I think that accounts for the deliberateness in the choice of subject matter and the care for the details.
DeleteThat Buffalo hide image is chilling.
ReplyDeleteI chose that one over a huge pile of buffalo skulls.
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