There was once a time in life when cowboys, outlaws, and trailblazers ruled the land. Everyone should take the time to look back at what the world looked like during the Wild Western days. While the world has changed a whole lot over the past few hundred years, there are tons of pictures from the Wild Western days to be seen, and they are all super interesting. It is hard to imagine that once upon a time, the world looked like this. From cowboys and Native American tribes to settlers and stagecoaches, horses, saloons, and more. Life looked a whole lot different but also kind of familiar, in a weird way.
All of the Wild West and old American shows and movies will never add up to what life was truly like back in these days. It can be a lot to take in because of all the history that exists in these times. It's kind of mind-boggling to realize just how different everything was. It's pretty astonishing to think about how far the world and society has come in just a few hundred years and to consider the events those people went through.
Enjoy this journey to the past and channel your inner cowboy with these 28 images showcasing life, society, and the world as it existed in the days of the Wild West. This is a journey into the 1800s and early 1900s.
Market Day in Fort Worth, 1875
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Pulling a load of ore from a Tombstone mine, 1880s
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Main Street in Lincoln, NM
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Thomas Jefferson, Laramie County sheriff, 1870
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Lewis and Clark County Jail, MT, 1874
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A Navajo mother with her family, Winslow, AZ, 1912
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Cosmopolitan Saloon, Telluride, CO, 1910
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A cowboy in South Dakota, 1887
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1890s Parker County, threshing machine collapses a bridge,
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Pike's Peak Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO, 1870s
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Locomotive 119 at the roundhouse for repairs, 1880s
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A man and his horse, Old West Bonham, TX, 1910
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The mining town of Gold Hill, NV, 1867
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Downtown San Antonio, 1872
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Men on a stagecoach in Rawlins, WY, 1907
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Circle City Saloon in Nome, AK, 1902
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Wyatt Earp, 1925
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Views of Lead City, 1889
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Billy the Kid, 1880
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Deadwood celebrates completing a stretch of railroad, 1888
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Saloon Gamblers, Eureka, SD, 1890s
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Old Mission Church, Zuni Pueblo, NM, 1873
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Deadwood coach, 1889
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Two women talking on Cutler street, Helena, MT, 1885
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Fire wagon in front of the Southern Californian newspaper, Bakersfield, CA, 1880
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A street in Creede, CO, 1892
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Denver, CO, 1860
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Looking down Main Street, Tacoma, WA, 1871
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