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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San Luis Obispo, California, 1876 |
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Miners of the North Star and Mountaineer lodes, Colorado, 1875 |
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Freight wagon and ox team, Topeka, Kansas, c1870 |
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Black Canyon on the Colorado River, Nevada, 1871 |
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A general view of the Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, 1879 |
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Hunting party, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), 1870s; photo by William S. Soule |
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Deadwood, from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 8, 1877 |
Photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
Coming up: Jack Palance,
The Lonely Man (1957)
those miners look like they were definitely roughing it eh?
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