Nice Wild West Pictures

[uniface]

Pictured: The revealing images of life on the frontier from wagon trains and mining to the white settler and the native Americans | Mail Online

[Shannon Graham]

Fantastic images. Thanks for sharing!

Shannon

[homestyle]

Yeah, thanks for posting the link!

I liked them all, the photo of all the teepees in the camp is neat and the picture of Comanche "The Brave Horse" was cool, I've herd the Johnny Horton song many times, but never seen a photo of him. Here is link to the song.

[medicine bag]

thanks for the thread uniface.the pics are great ,i could look at old american pictures all day.. mb

[ghost recon]

Great pictures, thanks for the link uni. Enjoyed that youtube Homestyle. I'm related to George Custer...woops, let the jokes begin.

[highsierra]

Dakota? Wild West? Shouldn't it be Wild Midwest? I have never considered the Dakotas to be part of the true West. That would be any state west of the Rocky Mts, not west of the Mississippi.

[uniface]

I don't care who y'are -- next door to Montana is Out West

[mootsman]

Originally Posted by highsierra

Dakota? Wild West? Shouldn't it be Wild Midwest? I have never considered the Dakotas to be part of the true West. That would be any state west of the Rocky Mts, not west of the Mississippi.

Oh well, so much for a great percentage of Western movies. Hard to think of Lonesome Dove as a great midwestern movie....

[uniface]

Matt Dillon/Miss Kitty/Doc/Chester/Dodge City -- "Gunsmoke" wasn't a Western ?

I was cruelly deceived !

[joyce]

Originally Posted by homestyle

Yeah, thanks for posting the link!

I liked them all, the photo of all the teepees in the camp is neat and the picture of Comanche "The Brave Horse" was cool, I've herd the Johnny Horton song many times, but never seen a photo of him. Here is link to the song.

Thanks for the old photos Uniface, I loved the one of the Oxen hitched to the wagons in the town, they all were wonderful to see!

Homestyle, The song Comanche has always been a favorite of mine by Johnny Horton. I have read alot about the horse Comanche since I am a horse lover, thought I would share this with you about him from Wikipedia! Joyce

Comanche was a veteran, 21 years old, and had been with the 7th Cavalry since its Organization in '66.... He was found by Sergeant [Milton J.] DeLacey [Co. I] in a ravine where he had crawled, there to die and feed the Crows. He was raised up and tenderly cared for. His wounds were serious, but not necessarily fatal if properly looked after...He carries seven scars from as many bullet wounds. There are four back of the foreshoulder, one through a hoof, and one on either hind leg. On the Custer battlefield (actually Fort Abraham Lincoln) three of the balls were extracted from his body and the last one was not taken out until April '77…Comanche is not a great horse, physically talking; he is of medium size, neatly put up, but quite noble looking. He is very gentle. His color is 'claybank' He would make a handsome carriage horse...


In June, 1879, Comanche was brought to Fort Meade by the Seventh Regiment, where he was kept like a prince until 1887, when he was taken to Fort Riley, Kansas.[2] As an honor, he was made “Second Commanding Officer” of the 7th Cavalry. At Fort Riley, he became something of a pet, occasionally leading parades and indulging in a fondness for beer.

Comanche died in 1890. He is one of only two horses in United States history to be buried with full military honors, the other being Black Jack.[3]