“Use enough dynamite, Butch?” Arguably one of the funniest scenes in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is when Butch uses a little too much force to blast open a safe—the result of which is money raining down from the sky. Shown here is the Union Pacific railcar after the real-life Wild Bunch dynamited it in a 1900 holdup near Tipton, Wyoming (in the center, check out the payroll safe with the door blown off).
– Courtesy Robert G. McCubbin Collection –
The Union Pacific Railroad’s official photographer, Andrew J. Russell, captured this iconic photograph of the Central Pacific’s engine "Jupiter" nearly touching cowcatchers with the Union Pacific’s engine No. 119 at Promontory Point, Utah, on May 10, 1869. Railroad promoters upset by the display of drinking evident in this picture released a “clean” copy without the presence of bottles.
– True West Archives –
January 1891 photograph of the “great hostile Indian camp on River Brule,” with the Lakota tipi camp in the background and horses at White Clay Creek watering hole in foreground.
– Courtesy Library of Congress –
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