Seth Kinman a mountain man with great hunting skills. Sitting in a chair that he made for President Andrew Johnson. 1865, California
A miner’s cabin made from barrels in Tonopah, Nevada, c.1900
Harriet, Elizabeth, Lucie, and Ruth Chrisman at their sod house in Custer County, Nebraska, 1886.
Deadwood, SD 1877
“Old Flagstaff, Arizona” in 1883
Wild Bill (left) Texas Jack (standing) and Buffalo Bill (right), September, 1873.
James Brown Miller(aka Killin’ Jim) a hired killer of the west. Skilled gunfighter that served both as a lawman and outlaw. 1887, Texas\
He was said to have killed 12 people during gunfights. Miller was referred to by some by the alias “Deacon Jim” because he regularly attended the Methodist Church, and he did not smoke or drink. He was lynched in Ada, Oklahoma, in 1909 along with three other men, by a mob of residents angry that he had assassinated a former deputy U.S. marshal.
Crow’s Nest Pass Lumber Co. lumberjacks on a log jam in Bull River. British Columbia. ca 1910 – 1914, Southern Canada
In late 1887, Calamity Jane Canary and cowboy Teddy Blue Abbott, wearing each other’s hats, shared drinks at a saloon in Gilt Edge, Montana, where she was living for the winter, Montana
Calamity Jane was a notorious whiskey drunk. She sold her own daughter off into sex trafficking to pay off her bar tab. She also never bathed and smelled like a filthy, rotten hobo. Not many people in the Wild West became famous for how shitty they were, but Calamity Jane was right up there with Jesse James and William Bonney.