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Badlands

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Description: Elevated view of the painted Badlands reaching out to the horizon.
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Elevated View of a Settled Valley

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Description: Elevated view of homes in a valley. In the foreground is a mining-car bridge, numerous buildings, and factory smokestacks. Caption reads: "Cambria, WYO."
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Cemetery

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Description: A view of a cemetery with wooden crosses and bedsteads used as fences.
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Street Scene

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Description: A view of a village street and general store. Business sign reads: "Neil's Place General Merchandise." A gas pump and metal sign are on the left.
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Freight Team

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Description: A view of a sixteen horse freight team. In the background are a livery and feed stable, along with a harness shop. Caption reads: "16 Horse Freight Team, L...
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Eating Near the Chuck Wagon

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Description: A dozen or so ranch hands sitting on the ground and eating on the plain. The chuckwagon is behind them. A large coffee pot and a bucket of rolls is on the ...
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Cowboy on a Personalized Postcard

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Description: Postcard of a portrait of a cowboy, with a super-imposed pennant that reads: "Yours Truly ~" with a blank line underneath. The man is wearing a hat, shirt ...
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A Postcard of Riding Cowboys

Date: 1913
Description: A postcard for Cheyenne, Wyoming. The central image is a large group of cowboys riding and holding their hats up among the letters of the word "Cheyenne." ...
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A "Hog-Tied" Buffalo

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Description: Many ranch hands posing in, and in front of, a barn, with a buffalo tied up on the ground. A woman and many children the second floor of the barn are looki...
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Hog-Tying a Buffalo

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Description: Ranch hands in the process of hog-tying a buffalo. Men, women, and children watch from inside the barn on the first and second floors and from the roof. A ...
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Oil Well Pumps

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Description: View of the Salt Creek Oil Field. In the 1920's, one-fifth of all petroleum produced in the United States came from one oil field.
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Salt Creek Oil Truck

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Description: An oil truck on it way to Salt Creek oil field, at one time responsible for producing approximately one-fifth of all petroleum in the United States. Captio...
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Stock Yards

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Description: Elevated view of stock yards. Caption reads: "Stock Yards, Laramie, Wyoming."
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Rows of Railroad Tank Cars

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Description: Railroad Tank Cars in the process of being filled on the Wyoming Central Railway.
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Distant View of High Plateau City

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Description: Distant view of a high plateau city with grids of streets and flatland stretching into the distance. Caption reads, "Bird's-Eye View, Rawling, Wyoming."
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Distant Town and Cattle Grazing

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Description: Distant view of small town surrounded by rolling grassland with cattle grazing in the foreground. Caption reads, "Birds Eye View of Lander, WYO."
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St. Michael's Mission Chapel

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Description: A view of the log church, with steeple and bell tower. The front door is painted with symbols.
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"Frontier Days" Rodeo

Date: 1910
Description: View of a "Frontier Days" Rodeo. A man holding his hat in one hand is riding a bronco while two other men run nearby. A circle of observers on horseback st...
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"Frontier Days" Rodeo

Date: 1910
Description: View of a "Frontier Days" Rodeo. A man is riding a bucking bronco while four other men surround him. A circle of observers on horseback are behind a barric...
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"Frontier Days" Rodeo

Date: 1910
Description: A man is riding a bucking bronco while another man rides in front of him at a "Frontier Days" rodeo.

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