LIKED LOOKING AT THE PICTURES OF “THE OLD WEST.” SOME OF MY ANCESTORS WERE EXPLORERS…
I MAY HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT SOME MY OWN ANCESTORS AND NOT KNOW IT…HI UNCLE LOU !!!
THAT WAS A “HARD” TIME THEN AND THEY THOUGHT THAT IT WAS “MODERN” IN THOSE DAYS.
ON THE VERY LAST PICTURE, IN THE MIDDLE UPPER LEFT, I SEE A PROFILE OF A DOG’S HEAD…
DO YOU SEE IT??? THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES…
Elizabeth W.
It’s really something too look at old photographs and then realize how far we’ve come and still so far to go. This was definitely captured the beauty of nature and people.
I have always been interested in the old days. Life was so very hard for the men and women. Women had to get married in order to have a home to live in! If you were a school teacher, you couldn’t even be a married woman. When I was a child, I always thought that I would have loved to live back then but as I grew older..no way!! Those poeple never had television, radios but then since they had never heard of these things, they couldn’t miss them. If only they could see how much life has changed since then! In just the past twenty years, things have changed so fast with computers, cell phones, cars and lot’s more things!! The medical needs that people got then couldn’t save lives the way they do now. I know I’m living in the right time!! Familys did communicate more back then and the children grew up with their parents around them all the time to teach them morals and values in life. Especially with their mothers. What really gets to me is if a man beat on his wife, he got away with it. You hardly ever hesrd of a divorce!!
I wish we knew which tribes the Indians were from. They were such interesting people. My lineage was from the Shawnee Indians. Wish there were titles on the photos, too, to know where the locations were and a little about the towns, the mines, etc. Very interesting.
See how well the giverment too care of our native people. There is no reason the tribes have been kept in poverty other than to make them dependent on the giverment. You watch, if a big oil/gas pool is found under reservation lands the government will not allow it to be recovered. Save the environment you know.
bonjour terry, pour moi français , lil est hors de question de critiquer les colons américains, ,les soldats , je ne sais de l’amérique que ce qu’on à bien voulu nous apprendre à l’école, une seule chose si l’amérique respecte ses autoctones c’est parfait pour eux , car ce que je sais des indiens américains c’est ; qu’ils ont beaucoup souffert de la venue des colons, que la plupart de leurs terres furent confisquées et eux parqués dans des réserves, le gouvernement ameéricain s’occupe d’eux .. tant mieux le respect leur est dut. Mais ce sont des images que je trouve plaisante , les indiens, les cowboys, l’armée des nordistes, tout cela me rappelle mon enfance, sitting bull etc… que de bons souvenirsde ma jeunesse, les diligences , l’US postale, que des gens courageux .merçi terry
March 28, 2012 @ 11:44 am
Who knows his history…is more genuine…then ever…
March 28, 2012 @ 11:47 am
I don’t think I would have liked living back in that time. They really had a hard life.
March 28, 2012 @ 11:58 am
HAVE A GREAT DAY AND ENJOY
CHUCK
March 28, 2012 @ 12:43 pm
loved the beautiful horses!!!
March 28, 2012 @ 2:54 pm
LIKED LOOKING AT THE PICTURES OF “THE OLD WEST.” SOME OF MY ANCESTORS WERE EXPLORERS…
I MAY HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT SOME MY OWN ANCESTORS AND NOT KNOW IT…HI UNCLE LOU !!!
THAT WAS A “HARD” TIME THEN AND THEY THOUGHT THAT IT WAS “MODERN” IN THOSE DAYS.
ON THE VERY LAST PICTURE, IN THE MIDDLE UPPER LEFT, I SEE A PROFILE OF A DOG’S HEAD…
DO YOU SEE IT??? THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES…
Elizabeth W.
March 28, 2012 @ 3:06 pm
It’s really something too look at old photographs and then realize how far we’ve come and still so far to go. This was definitely captured the beauty of nature and people.
March 28, 2012 @ 3:26 pm
My, how times have changed!!
March 28, 2012 @ 9:58 pm
The ‘Old west’ & the ‘NEW west’ have met & managed to PRESEARVE the history of the ‘old’ while WELCOMING the new.
March 28, 2012 @ 10:03 pm
I have always been interested in the old days. Life was so very hard for the men and women. Women had to get married in order to have a home to live in! If you were a school teacher, you couldn’t even be a married woman. When I was a child, I always thought that I would have loved to live back then but as I grew older..no way!! Those poeple never had television, radios but then since they had never heard of these things, they couldn’t miss them. If only they could see how much life has changed since then! In just the past twenty years, things have changed so fast with computers, cell phones, cars and lot’s more things!! The medical needs that people got then couldn’t save lives the way they do now. I know I’m living in the right time!! Familys did communicate more back then and the children grew up with their parents around them all the time to teach them morals and values in life. Especially with their mothers. What really gets to me is if a man beat on his wife, he got away with it. You hardly ever hesrd of a divorce!!
March 28, 2012 @ 10:40 pm
I hope to move to West TEXAS from Mississippi. I Lubbock the history of the state, I have family in several places & #1.
March 29, 2012 @ 12:09 am
I wish we knew which tribes the Indians were from. They were such interesting people. My lineage was from the Shawnee Indians. Wish there were titles on the photos, too, to know where the locations were and a little about the towns, the mines, etc. Very interesting.
March 29, 2012 @ 5:10 am
These are great photos and history that was well presented here. Nethugs we thank you for this wonderful presentation!
March 29, 2012 @ 9:51 pm
this is fantastic! one of those iNDIANS LOOKS LIKE DAD!
April 3, 2012 @ 3:39 pm
Hey Howard is that you sitting between the two dudes?lol
March 23, 2013 @ 2:47 pm
My Wife is Cheroke n Irish beautiful 71 year old lady looks 50
October 13, 2013 @ 10:09 am
See how well the giverment too care of our native people. There is no reason the tribes have been kept in poverty other than to make them dependent on the giverment. You watch, if a big oil/gas pool is found under reservation lands the government will not allow it to be recovered. Save the environment you know.
November 3, 2014 @ 3:00 pm
wado for such wonderful pics.
November 4, 2014 @ 4:48 pm
Nice pictures!
March 18, 2015 @ 9:36 am
A fascinating history in photos and to look into the past of the lives of our ancestors.
September 27, 2015 @ 12:41 pm
Wonderful pictures, I like every one of them…….GREAT INDEED……
August 9, 2017 @ 6:27 am
bonjour terry, pour moi français , lil est hors de question de critiquer les colons américains, ,les soldats , je ne sais de l’amérique que ce qu’on à bien voulu nous apprendre à l’école, une seule chose si l’amérique respecte ses autoctones c’est parfait pour eux , car ce que je sais des indiens américains c’est ; qu’ils ont beaucoup souffert de la venue des colons, que la plupart de leurs terres furent confisquées et eux parqués dans des réserves, le gouvernement ameéricain s’occupe d’eux .. tant mieux le respect leur est dut. Mais ce sont des images que je trouve plaisante , les indiens, les cowboys, l’armée des nordistes, tout cela me rappelle mon enfance, sitting bull etc… que de bons souvenirsde ma jeunesse, les diligences , l’US postale, que des gens courageux .merçi terry
April 26, 2021 @ 6:40 pm
Wow, times were hard back then! I’m glad we live in the present times, for sure!
April 27, 2021 @ 9:36 am
wonderful pics.
June 3, 2022 @ 7:37 pm
Great photos! Thank you !
June 4, 2022 @ 3:13 am
It seems the greater majority of them where taken in and around the Black Hills of South Dakota. An excellent collection. Bravo.