Thanks for posting.Really cool!!!

Very cool,what a great look of the West. Glad there were men who would take time and trouble to do this.
Thanks for the look
Kidd

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for the great pictures.

I was born in Arizona a long time ago, when the great majority of the state still looked just like these pictures and there were NO paved highways or roads which went clear across the state either east-west, or north-south. (And no combo of paved pieces which enabled that feat either.)

Those pictures show the Arizona which still existed when I was a kid, and which I have always loved.

My parents left me a whole filing cabinet full of similar pictures which they took up until about the 1930s. They were no Sullivans, but my mother was almost never without a camera, and my father had a job where he daily covered much of the Arizona ranch land, mountains and deserts...and he also used that as an opportunity to explore areas where few if any other men had recorded being. He also prospected for gold and silver.

Being a Comanche, he had no fear of, and loved, the outdoors of the deserts, mountains, springs, rivers, caves, and the more basic and in some ways more primitive societies.

One of these days I will have to go back into their filing cabinet (which sits here next to my computer) and see what I can dig out which may bridge some of the time between the pictures posted here and the modern, wretched, L.A.-like mess Arizona has become a clone of in far too many areas. Who knows,maybe some historical society or museum might have use for some of it?

Thanks for the insight!

Thank you for sharing some great phots.

Jim

While I lived in OK, I had the pleasure of knowing a old guy that had cowboyed out in west TX and in the 3 corner area. It wasn't anything like the movies. He told about 2 or 3 guys pooling their bed covers and sleeping together to keep from freezing when the northers would come screaming in and then sweating so hard the next day that your lips cracked. He also said they still had small groups of hard case indians that would ride in and demand that you feed them. Maybe want a beef. The cook always had a big pot of beef and beans cooking and there was usually a old cow on her last legs so it wasn't a real problem. He did say they would steal your pants whilst you had your hands in your pockets if you didn't watch them.
He said it was all done on horseback and if you didn't get all the hard work you wanted, you just weren't trying.

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WOW ! Great pictures ! Thanks.

I live close to where that first picture was taken. Shoshone falls is a cool place. The story says salmon could be caught below it. Sturgeon can still be caught below it. Ron

i was just at shoshone falls on the 16th.
i have been to almost every one of those places in those pictures except a few in arizona.
those two spires are still there in green river wyoming.
however the town of blaine is gone and the trains run through green river [they have a switch yard there]
it's still that wide open and desolate in many places.
mainly because it's extremely hot and dry in the summer and then extremly cold in the winter.

Wyoming is one of my favourite states. Well over 50 years ago when I was young and in university studying paleontology, I got a "Dinosauer Hunting License" from Green River. (It was just part of their Chamber of Commerce tourism promotion activities, not a real license.) I've even still got it.

But it is really a great area to visit if you are a geologist, paleontologist....or are just interested in those big creatures and want to show some of their reassembled skeletal remains to your kids.. If IIRC, Dinosaur National Monument is still in operation there.

I LOVE Wyoming. .....have wandered alot of it. I found a petroglyph scratched in sandstone 40 miles west of Rawlins, and a cave filled with stone tools and bones about 15 miles west of Chugwater. I tried but failed to interest the Anthropology Dept. of Univ. Wyo. There are just too many sites for study in that state. I left the cave as found, but in a return trip to that site (there's a massive deposit of very gemmy agate nearby), I found that a rockslide had covered the entrance.

Beautiful pictures,thanks for sharing.