Rare Images of the Old West

Photography became available just in time to capture most of the Westward movement of our nation. Although too late for the Spanish Southwest and the early explorers such as Lewis and Clark, the arrival of the daguerreotype in America in the 1840s was just in time for the second half of the 19th century in the West. Beginning with the California 49ers, there now exists a priceless photographic record of those brave, foolish, reckless, legendary souls who opened up a frontier. Many were uneducat