The mining camp of Deadwood, Dakota Territory, as it probably looked when Wild Bill Hickok arrived in 1876.
– Courtesy South Dakota State Historical Society –
The interior of a late 19th-century military medical ward, like this one at Fort Riley in Kansas in 1899, was a far cry from earlier wards that, in some instances, barely kept patients out of the elements.
– Courtesy Sidney B. Brinkerhoff Collection –
The earliest known photograph of Hickok is this circa 1863 tintype. After a brief stint as a Union teamster during the Civil War, he was employed in late 1863 as a special policeman and later attached as a scout to Brig. Gen. John B. Sanborn’s headquarters in Springfield, Missouri.
– Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration / Ethel Hickok Collection –
This group of 13th Infantry non-commissioned officers serving in New Mexico readied for the field as part of the final push to end the Apache Wars during the mid-1880s.
– Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration –
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