I ran across this amazing set of pictures taken in the Dakota Territory by John Grabill in the 1880s and 1890s and wanted an appropriate thread to post them in.
Tales of the Old West here please: GO
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:22 (fourteen years ago)
http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-200509/cache/west29.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG
Title: People of Deadwood celebrating completion of a stretch of railroad Street parade with numbers "1888" in foreground. 1888
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:23 (fourteen years ago)
http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-200509/cache/west60.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG
Title: "We have it rich." Washing and panning gold, Rockerville, Dak. Old timers, Spriggs, Lamb and Dillon at work Three men, with dog, panning for gold in a stream. 1889
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:26 (fourteen years ago)
http://denverpost.slideshowpro.com/albums/001/496/album-200509/cache/west27.sJPG_950_2000_0_75_0_50_50.sJPG
Title: "Grand review." U.S. troops after surrender of Indians at Pine Ridge Agency, S.D. Very distant view of a line of military men on horseback. 1891.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:27 (fourteen years ago)
awesome thread
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:41 (fourteen years ago)
these pictures are kind of heartbreaking
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Monday, 7 March 2011 02:46 (fourteen years ago)
I blurted out a "GAH!" on seeing the picture of the wolf.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 7 March 2011 03:42 (fourteen years ago)
this book to thread: the history of manifest destiny through the lens of water acquisition/the taming of the wild colorado river/etc.
http://www.amazon.com/Cadillac-Desert-American-Disappearing-Revised/dp/0140178244
― hauntological-hysteric theater (get bent), Monday, 7 March 2011 03:50 (fourteen years ago)
i've never seen the related pbs series, but for people who aren't into fancy book-larnin', there's that.
― hauntological-hysteric theater (get bent), Monday, 7 March 2011 03:51 (fourteen years ago)
The series is up on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkbebOhnCjA
Reisner's other book A Dangerous Place is worth checking out too. Makes a good companion piece to Davis' Ecology Of Fear
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 7 March 2011 04:06 (fourteen years ago)
william albert allard is a great photographer and his book Vanishing Breed is excellent
http://www.minnesotaalumni.org/s/1118/images/editor/Bookmarks/Allard_p055.jpg
― Neu! romancer (dayo), Monday, 7 March 2011 05:25 (fourteen years ago)
holy shit it's every flannery o'connor story ever in one photograph
― HOOStory is back. Fasten your steenbelts. (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 7 March 2011 05:42 (fourteen years ago)
what's on that bread? i want some.
― hauntological-hysteric theater (get bent), Monday, 7 March 2011 06:52 (fourteen years ago)