There was once a time when real cowboys, outlaws, and trailblazers ran through and ruled the lands, from coast to coast. It's interesting to take a moment to step back in time to experience the lives that people lived in America during the late 1800s. While things have changed a lot over the past few hundred years, many images of America in the past exist online for all to see. From cowboys and Native American tribes to settlers, horses and buggies, stagecoaches, and saloons. Life looked similar in many ways, but so different in so many more.
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. Taking in just how different and kind of unrecognizable the world looked like in 1800s compared to today can be kind of mind-boggling. The people back then went through some crazy times.
Enjoy this journey to the past and channel your inner cowboy with these 25 images showcasing life, society, and the world as it existed in the days of the Wild West.
The Shade Saloon, Fort Jones, CA, 1910
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Cowboys playing Mumble-Peg on the Turkey Track Ranch, 1906
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Central George Crook, 1885
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The Sam DeAngelas Saloon, Utah, 1910s
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A cowboy in Texas, 1906
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Downtown San Antonio, 1880
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Major William Mathew Ormsby, 1860
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Shoshone Chief Washakie, Wyoming, 1870
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Prescott, 1884
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A family outside their home in Castle Gate, Utah, 1890s
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Blue Duck and Belle Starr, 1886
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George Peppin, 1905
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Buffalo soldiers, 1890
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Logging crew, CA, 1880s
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Tombstone, 1881
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Private Frank L. Schmid, 1886
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Tombstone, AZ, 1880
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Calamity Jane and friends in Gilt Edge, Montana, 1897
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Brigham Young, Salt Lake City, 1870s
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Old Flagstaff, Arizona, 1883
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Cottonwood Charlie Nebo and Nick, 1880s
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Pah-Ute group near Cedar, Utah, 1872
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Tombstone Baseball Club, 1880s
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Wild Bill, Texas Jack, and Buffalo Bill, 1870s
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A cowboy in Dakota territory, now South Dakota, 1887
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