everything old west

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A young Oglala girl sitting in front of a tepee, with a puppy beside her, probably on or near Pine Ridge Reservation. It was taken in 1891 by Grabill, John C. H. 

(via Indian Girl in Front of Tipi)

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Add the old west to your Summer Bucket List at Middle Fork of the Powder River Recreation Area. 

This area is located about 20 miles southwest of Kaycee, Wyoming, in a spectacularly scenic part of the Old West that is rich with legend of outlaw activity in the late 1800s. The area contains around 70,000 acres of public land with such notable sites as Outlaw Cave and the Hole-in-the-Wall, whose names were immortalized by Butch Cassidy’s famous outlaw gang.

Learn more: http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/field_offices/Buffalo/recreation/middlefork.html

(Middle photo: Charlotte Darling, Rangeland Management Specialist, BLM Buffalo Field Office)

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art history meme: 5/6 themes/series/subjects

The Old West 

The Old West, once a vast unknown that stretched from the great plains of northern America to the deserts of the southwest, became a romanticized sub genre of landscape and history painting in American art. This remarkable blending of cultures—not only Hispanic and Native American, but numerous European groups and some east Asian immigrants—created a fascinating, but deadly, world of fabled gunslingers, vaqueros, Comanche chiefs, and adventurers. Some nineteenth and early twentieth century painters of the American West include George Catlin, James Otto Lewis, Frederic Remington, Charles Marion Russell, and George Winter.

“When a man or woman came West, their past became an unknown and the present became an open book. They soon became known by their actions or lack of. No one cared who your father was or what you had done. The only things that mattered were, that you were honest, had courage, and that you did your job.” — Louis L’Amour

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Charles Earl Bowles (b. 1829; d.after 1888), better known as Black Bart, was an English-born American Old West outlaw noted for the poetic messages he left behind after two of his robberies. Called Charley by his friends, he was also known as Charles Bolton, C.E. Bolton and Black Bart the Poet. Considered a gentleman bandit, he was one of the most notorious stagecoach robbers to operate in and around Northern California and southern Oregon during the 1870s and 1880s.

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"How many murders do you suppose old western towns saw a year?…How about five? That was the most any old-west town saw in any one year. Ever." #CrackedClassic

6 Ridiculous History Myths (You Probably Think Are True)

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The Smith & Wesson Model 3 Schofield Single Action,

The S&W Model 3 came in many variations, but the most popular models where the Russian and the Schofield.  The Russian was the model produced for the Russian Army while the Schofield was produced for the US Military.  The Schofield Model was an improvement of the regular Model 3 with modifications made by Major George W. Schofield, a high respected and experienced cavalry officer.  The original Model 3 was a top break revolver where the revolver opened along a hinged frame exposing the cylinder’s chambers.  When the revolver was opened an extractor also ejected the empty casings all at once.  This system was much faster than the Colt Model 1873 Single Action Army, in which empty casings had to be manually unload one at a time, then cartridges loaded one at a time through a loading port.

While the system was a great improvement in theory, there was one terrible flaw.  In in the heat of combat an enemy grabbed the barrel and pulled down, it would break the revolver open while causing the cartridges to be ejected, thus effectively unload the revolver.  Major Schofield re-designed the Model 3’s break top system so that it would only open by actuating a lever, which could be accomplished with a flick of the user’s thumb.

The Schofield revolver was adopted by the US Army and issued to officers and cavalry along with the Colt Model 1873.  Originally they were chambered for .45 Schofield, a shortened version of the .45 Colt that could be fired from the Colt Model 1873.  Later they were chambered for a new cartridge called the .44 S&W.  Outside of the military the Schofield was popular with civilians.  A number of outlaws, lawmen, and cowboys used them such as  Jesse James, John Wesley Hardin, Pat Garrett, Theodore Roosevelt, Virgil Earp, and Billy the Kid.  They were also popular with Wells Fargo and Company, who often issued them to their road agents.

Production was discontinued in 1898.  Today several reproduction models are produced by Uberti and Armi San Marco.

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A Pioneer Family in Loup Valley, Nebraska, 1886

(via http://www.archives.gov/research/american-west/)

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The Earp brothers and Doc Holliday.

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Three men pose with their weapons in a daguerreotype taken in 1874. The middle man is armed with a Winchester ‘73 rifle, while his compatriots carry cartridge-converted 1860 Colts.

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Cint Eastwood on the set of Hang ‘Em High (1968).

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Downtown las vegas in 1912. Sharing👌

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Old West (III)

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cowgirl

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Stagecoaches of the Old West

A beautiful picture of Omaha Board of Trade in Mountains near Deadwood, April 26, 1889. It was created in 1889 by Grabill, John C. H., photographer.

The picture presents Procession of stagecoaches loaded with passengers coming down a mountain road.