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Driving the golden spike to form the first transcontinental railroad
 
Tracks on the extreme front of Prescott and Eastern Railroad in Arizona Territory ca 1898
 
1887 land promotion (poster) enticing settlers to Dakota territory
 
Nebraska family posing in front of their sod house
 
Farmer turning over sod on homestead, Sun River Montana
 
Farming in South Dakota, 1898
 
Plains farm
 
Mechanization on the farm
 
Hauling supplies to mining camp
 
Mining crew drifting for gold, Deadwood, Dakota Territory ca.1876
 
Street in Hazen, Nevada, 1905
 
Montezuma Silver Smelting Works in Nevada, 1868
 
Copper mining town outside Denver, Colorado, 1897
 
A Texas Longhorn steer
 
Cattle drive
 
Cowboys moving cattle, 1904
 
Branding cattle
 
Cattle being driven to railroad in Colorado or Utah, 1904
 
Gardiner Park County, Montana, 1887
 
Buffalo hunt, 1873
 
Buffalo skinner, 1874
 
Destroyed buffalo herds
 
40,000 buffalo hides, Dodge City, KS, 1878
 
George Armstrong Custer
 
Sitting Bull
 
Sioux encampment near Pine Ridge, South Dakota, 1891
 
Ghost dancer
 
Geronimo and his followers after his surrender, 1886
 
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
 
Flathead reservation in Montana
 
Indian children at the Carlisle school, 1900
 
Mexican family in Brownsville, Texas, 1908
 
Henry Grady, editor of the Atlanta Constitution
 
Advertisement for “Old Judge” cigarettes
 
Sharecropper’s cabin in North Carolina
 
Lynching of African Americans
 
Convict labor working on a Mississippi River levee in Louisiana, 1898
 
Convict laborers building a road in Georgia, 1920
 
Booker T. Washington
 
Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute
 
Faculty council of Tuskegee Institute, including Booker T. Washington, 1902
 
1880’s depiction of the balance between two political parties
 
James A. Garfield
 
Chester A. Arthur
 
Grover Cleveland
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