Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1891 and 1903
A typical scene in western Kansas, where canyons were dammed to hold water for livestock. This view was taken on the Avery ranch near Englewood, Kansas. Two horse-drawn carriages are…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1898
View of a round-up of about 2,000 head of cattle on the Nunnemacher and Edgar Ranch near Ashland, Clark County, Kansas. Two horse-drawn carriages and railroad tracks are visible in…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1891 and 1903
View of St. Jacob’s Well, which is a pool of water about 84 feet in diameter and 58 feet deep that has never been known to go dry. It is…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1891 and 1903
View of Billy Weldon and George Theis, Jr. on horseback getting ready for a wolf hunt. Also visible in the photograph are their hunting dogs.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1897
View of about 3,000 head of the Chain C outfit’s cattle owned by William Herring of Woodward County, Oklahoma Territory.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1896
View of the CCC cattle herd owned by Vale and Gates. Wild Horse Lake, located in the western part of Beaver County, Oklahoma Territory, is visible in the background.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1897
This is a view of a sod house in the eastern portion of Beaver County, Oklahoma Territory. In the foreground, a woman is pouring water into a livestock trough and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1897
A round-up herd of about 1,200 cattle on Tom Kerns’ ranch south of Coldwater, Kansas, in 1897. Cowboys on horses are visible in the background.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1897
Cowboys seated and standing around two chuck wagons at the Clark County general round-up near M.C. Campbell’s ranch. A herd of horses is visible in the background.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1898
Members of the Irwin Brothers’ round-up crew seated on the ground eating a meal by the chuck wagon, near Ashland, Kansas. A cowboy seated on his horse, and two other…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1895
R. K. Perry of Meade, Kansas, seated on a hill overlooking his round-up herd of cattle watering at the Cimarron River, directly south of Englewood, Kansas. Also visible in the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1898
This is an 1898 photograph of the “Three Block” trail outfit of New Mexico, enroute for Sterling, Kansas. It shows cattle, mess wagons, mounts and riders. There were an estimated…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1898
This is a view of cowboys with a herd of 3,000 cattle on Bluff Creek near Dave Fritzlen’s ranch in Clark County, Kansas, 1898.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1898
View of cowboys on their horses with the mount and day herd. Cowboys changed horses two to three times a day, so the mount and day herd was a supply…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1891 and 1903
View of S–T outfit cowboys seated on the ground eating a meal. A chuckwagon and cook are in the background.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1896
A photograph of cowboys on their horses at Messing Brothers Ranch in Ashland, Kansas, in Clark County. In the foreground are bedrolls and blankets. A windmill and a herd of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1845 and 1861
This photograph is a studio portrait of Clarina Irene Howard Nichols. In 1854 Nichols joined the New England Emigrant Aid Society and moved her family to a claim in southern…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Photograph of an illustration captioned “Pike’s Peak-Street in Denver City, K. T.” It shows buildings on both sides of the street, people, and wagons. The source for the drawing is…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Photograph of an illustration captioned the “Pike’s Peak-The Leavenworth and Pike’s Peak Express Company’s Office, Denver City, K.T.” The drawing shows men standing outside of the Company’s office. The source…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
This is an illustration captioned “The Kansas Gold Region-View of Auraria and Denver City, Cherry Creek, near Long’s Peak.” The illustration was made by Col. D. H. Huyett, and was…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Portrait of Andrew H. Reeder, first governor of the Kansas Territory. Reeder was commissioned as governor on June 29, 1854, and took the oath of office on July 7, 1854.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Around 1870
Portrait of Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895, who was an African-American leader in the abolitionist movement, a speaker, and an author.
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Portrait of Benjamin Stringfellow, attorney and pro-slavery activist. In 1838, Stringfellow settled in Missouri, where he served in the house of representatives, and was attorney general for four years. After…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Portrait of Mary Holliday and Cyrus Kurtz Holliday of Topeka, Kansas Territory. Cyrus came to Kansas Territory from Meadville, Pennsylvania, as an agent for the New England Emigrant Aid Company.…
Medium: StillImage
Date:
Samuel J. Reader lived in Shawnee County, Kansas Territory, and participated in some free state activities. He wrote about his daily life (including descriptions of the Battles of Indianola and…
