Wild West photos
Photographs of the American West in the late 19th and early 20th century: cowboys and cattle drives, frontier towns and saloons, stagecoaches, wagons and the railroads that crossed the plains.
Why they are free to use: Published before 1931: their US copyright has expired. Each photo's page shows its own licence basis and a credit line.
Cowboys
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Wyoming Cowboys
1870–1890 · Library of Congress
Klondikers with packtrains on the White Pass Trail near Bennett, British Columbia, September 6, 1898.
1898 · Wikimedia Commons
Six Tribal Leaders
c. 1900 · Wikimedia Commons
Canyon de Chelly, Navajo
1904 · Library of Congress
Two men with mules walking the Bonanza Trail through Lousetown, near Dawson, Yukon Territory.
c. 1899 · Wikimedia Commons
Three Crow horsemen- Edward S. Curtis
1908 · Wikimedia Commons
Cowboy at Newton, Kas. *Abstract/medium:; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
1908 · Library of Congress
Men with horse drawn sleds at the foot of Porcupine Ridge, White Pass Trail, ca. 1898
c. 1898 · Wikimedia Commons
Frontier towns
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Skagway street scene, summer of 1897.
1897 · Wikimedia Commons
Front Street after the big fire of April 1899, Dawson, May 15, 1899
1899-05-15 · Wikimedia Commons
Front St., Dawson, Yukon Territory, June 1898.
1899 · Wikimedia Commons
Front Street, Dawson, Yukon Territory.
1899 · Wikimedia Commons
Dyea, Alaska, ca. 1898.
c. 1898 · Wikimedia Commons
Horse drawn cart hauling lumber stuck in mud on Front St., Dawson, Yukon Territory, ca. 1899.
1899 · Wikimedia Commons
Dyea-street-view-1898
1898 · Wikimedia Commons
Dogteam in Front Street, Dawson, Yukon Territory, June 1899.
1899-06-01 · Wikimedia Commons
Wagons and stagecoaches
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A settler's wagon at Fort Caspar, a reconstructed 1865 military post located at a North Platte River crossing on the Oregon, Mormon Pioneer, California, and Pony Express trails and the transcontinental telegraph trail corridor in Casper, Wyoming Physical description
1865 · Library of Congress
Wagon on the White Pass & Yukon Route, between 1901 and 1905
c. 1901 · Wikimedia Commons
California delegates on stagecoach at the 1912 Republican National Convention held at the Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, June 18-22, 1912
1912 · Library of Congress
California delegates cheering on stagecoach at the 1912 Republican National Convention held at the Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, June 18-22, 1912
1912 · Library of Congress
Medicine man cart in Rough and Ready, a small settlement near Grass Valley, California Physical description:. Notes: Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.; Rough and Ready was established in 1849 by a mining company from Wisconsin known as t
1849 · Library of Congress
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