In Washington, D.C. for his November 1864 visit with President Abraham Lincoln, California mountain man Seth Kinman reclined in Mathew Brady’s photography studio. After the nimrod presented the elkhorn chair he had made to President Lincoln, Honest Abe gave him a pull of Bourbon in the East Room of the White House. Kinman cradles the Kentucky rifle he called “Old Cottonblossom,” which the President handle, saying, “Seth, that’s the kind of artillery I was raised on.” Note the set of elkhorns and the grizzly bear feet, material from his hunts that Kinman used to craft his chairs.
– True West Archives –
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At Fort Randall in Dakota Territory (present-day South Dakota), Capt. Willis Wittich peddled along on his high wheeler, which required both skill and daring.
– Courtesy Robert L. Kothian Collection –
Against the backdrop of the beautiful Gallatin Range, Joshua Crissman took this ghastly photograph of the executed prisoners on Sunday morning, February 2, 1873.
– Courtesy Museum of the Rockies –
After the Civil War, government-sponsored expeditions furthered the record of the frontier West. Photographer William Henry Jackson traveled the farthest, when he joined Ferdinand Hayden’s 1870 survey. This Jackson photo of Shoshone Chief Washakie’s band and encampment near Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains is among the earliest photographs of native tribes prior to reservations.
– Courtesy Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology –
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