The Old West

Rico says his friend Dave sends (for once) some non-salacious photos:

I can only imagine the hardships the anonymous photographer(s) suffered to get this historic documentation. And that photo of Custer's stallion, Comanche...

Placer mining for gold

Lakota Sioux Indian village

A typical cowboy

A deer hunt near Deadwood in the winter of 1887-88

Deadwood Central Railroad surveyors

Miners panning for gold in the Dakota Territory

A Western stagecoach

Cheyenne braves in town

Hotel Minnekahta hot springs in the Dakota Territory

Stagecoaches in the Old West

Lakota Sioux camp

Saw mill interior, Terraville, Dakota Territory

Chinese hose team

Captain Taylor and seventy Indian Scouts

Comanche, the only survivor of the Custer Massacre in 1876

Indian Fighters from the US Army

Last trip of the famous Deadwood stagecoach.