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"Branding cattle" Six cowboys branding cattle in front of a house.
1891
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Don Schimmel takes beautiful contemporary photographs that
help preserve our Western culture, but John C.H. Grabill was actually
there to take photographs of the real Old West. The Denver Post has 66 of Grabill’s photographs posted on their website. He
submitted 188 photographs to the Library of Congress for copyright protection. Grabill’s
subjects included cowboys, native Americans, trains, stages, wagons, landscapes, and towns.
The contrast between Native American encampments and frontier towns is interesting.
He is especially renowned for his photographs of Deadwood, South Dakota and the Wounded
Knee Massacre.
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| Washing and panning gold, Rockerville, Dak. Old timers, Spriggs, Lamb and Dillon at work |
Since the characters in my Steve Dancy series are miners, I found the mining pictures helpful, especially the heavy equipment used by the big operations.
