Western and Historical Americana

each circa 9 x 7" unmounted albumen prints, identified and copyrighted in the negative. Includes No. 1891. Freighting through Cold Run Homestak...

4.5" x 8" albumen print mounted on larger board, partial mat with inked identification, and attribution of W. J. Collins, photographer, an...

6.5 x 4.75" warm-toned gelatin silver print mounted on larger grey card, with manuscript title Coaching ore on the Miz pah during leasers (?) 1...

lot of 7, includes one silver print mounted on original card stock (5" x 7.5") showing mule pulled early stage coach with pencil inscripti...

albumen photograph, with imprint of F.A. Hartwell of Phoenix, and identified in the negative 819 Mule Train. C. Mine. A.T. '89.  The Thom...

circa 1900-1910, 5 x 7" silver gelatin image mounted on larger grey cardstock, with pencil/ink inscription on verso: Mr. Jean on Sweeny's T...

6 x 10" warm-toned silver gelatin image, tacked to larger grey paper backing, with manuscript title Six Mule Team Army Wagon used in the Civil...

includes a 2.5" x 7.5" silver gelatin photo with pencil inscription on reverse Sign Talk-"The Old-Line Freighters"; and two real...

a view of a bull train with the manuscript title below image Bull Train Wyo Terr and T. Dalgleish's Buffalo, Wyo. imprint on verso. A great imag...

anonymous 4.5" x 7.75" gelatin silver print mounted on larger cream board, identified in the negative. With extensive annotations in penci...

all 3.5" x 5.5" silver gelatin prints with penciled inscription on reverse: a freight bound for Bullfrog; a freight pulling out from camp ...

anonymous, circa 1910 8 x 6" silver print on larger grey mount, identified in pencil on verso Frank Kelsey's Freight Outfit and in later in...

4.5" x 7" albumen on larger cream mount; with Louis Monaco's Eureka, Nevada imprint below image; 24 horses are shown hitched to four w...

9" x 6.75" unmounted silver gelatin image, ca 1903, identified in the negative as No. 1 Bullfrog Discovery. An impressive image, showing a...

8.5 x 6.5" unmounted silver gelatin image, identified in the negative Goldfield, Freight Team En Route to Bullfrog Nev. No. 481. Larson Phot. c...

albumen, with manuscript caption below image William Pearson Freight Team Laden with 40,000 lbs of Freight for Silver Peak, Nevada; in the background

a detailed view of oxen teams taking a break in front of loaded freight wagons, titled in negative Freighting Out-fit, Rico, Colo. - 1890., photograph

anonymous albumen image, showing wagons, including a sheep-herders rig.  The Thomas Minckler Collection of Western Americana Condition:

9.5" x 7.5" warm-toned silver gelatin print, mounted on larger gilt bordered cardstock, with Grabill's 1891 copyright in the negative ...

8 x 5.75" albumen photograph on larger cream mount, with printed caption Hauling Grain, Reedley, Fresno Co., Cal. 18 mules 5 wagons, 225 Sacks ...

lot of two silver gelatin images of pack trains, the first initialed and dated on recto CEOH, 1920, with the handwritten caption on verso Pack train g

circa 1885, with imprint of O.P. Haines, Chadron, Nebraska on verso, along with inked manuscript identification Freighting outfit. It belongs to a man

ca 1890-1900. Silver gelatin image, 9.5 x 7.5" mounted on larger cream board 9 x 12" overall, with imprint of Saunders Bros. Woodward, Okl...

10 x 4" silver gelatin image mounted on larger grey board, identified in negative 2'-0" X 2'-0" X 20 ft. from F.W. Norton'...

including a terrific cabinet-sized view of Freighting Teams at Casper, Wyoming; cabinet-sized view by Thurlow of Manitou, titled Indian Supply Train i

ranging from 3.5" x 5.25" to 4" x 8", all from Lincoln Co., NM, 1881. Two from January, two from May. All paid out by Sue Barber...

includes telegram on United States Signal Corps "Form 125B", 5.25" x 8.25". Dixon to Halet at Ft. Apache. Freighters Walters and...

2pp Bill of Lading, quarterfold, 8.5" x 14", Caldwell, KS, 28 July 1876. For "special train" to transport 104 men of Companies G...

2pp, 5" x 8", Monarch, CO, Nov. 2, 1887. D.B. Jared to David Wood. I hurd that you wanted some few mule whackers or Bull Punchers ther is ...

3pp, 8.5" x 14", docketed on 4th page by Saxton. Contract for Route No. 2, for Year ending June 30th, 1877. Agreement between Lieut. Col. ...

lot of 7. TLS by T.P. McDonald, 1p, 22 Dec. 1903, Thermopolis, WY. Letterhead of The Cody-Meeteetse-Thermopolis Stage Line, Thermopolis, WY with wonde

1p, 8.25" x 10.5", on letterhead for Southwestern U.S. Mail Passenger and Express Co., little Rock, AR, 3 March 1885. Cover letter for pay...

1p, 5.5" x 9" on First National Bank of Cheyenne, WY letterhead, 25 July 1880. Recording sale of 30 horses to William Smith. John Sparks...

2pp, 7.75" x 9.5", n.d., n.p. stated. William P. Snell to Father (and Mother) in Oakland, Michigan. He asks that letters be directed to Pl...

most from around the Civil War (1857 - 1867), except one which is an early typed letter. Includes two bills of lading for deliveries in Washington, DC

1p, 7.5" x 9.75", Junction City, KS, 22 Nov. 1866. On letterhead for Nye Forwarding Co. advertising Overland Freight to all the Territorie...

including Wells, Fargo & Co. waybill for $100 package of gold bullion, loaded at Helene, MT, 4 Dec. 1869; receipt for one days forage of fodder ...

lot of 3. Wells Fargo & Company book dated 1 July 1914, New York. 16mo in light cardstock boards with cloth tape spine, 57pp. Some water damage,...

lot of 5, including a Bill of Lading for the Pacific Express Company, El Paso, TX, 14 Aug. 1900. Verso has advertising for Pacific Express Money Order

conflicts between Texans and Native Americans in the area occurred primarily between groups of relative newcomers. The Comanche, a Shoshone offshoot,

7.75 x 5.5" warm-toned silver gelatin image mounted on large cream cardstock with imprint of D(aniel) A. Markey, Fort Grant, Arizona on recto a...

8.75 x 3.5" warm-toned silver gelatin print of a U.S. Mail coach in an unidentified street, with Arizona written in pencil on verso. A fine, ci...

on yellow, cabinet-sized mount, with imprint of the Black Hills View Company. Sherman St. Deadwood, Dakota. Terrific street-level view of two stagecoa

circa 1900-1910, warm toned 5" x 7" silver gelatin image mounted on larger buff cardstock.  The Thomas Minckler Collection of Weste...

on maroon cardstock, each identified in the negative. Includes Northwestern Stage Co. from Pierre to Deadwood, D.T. and Transportation from Pierre to

albumen image, on boudoir style mount 8.5 x 5.5", ca 1885. An anonymous image of the Spring Valley Ranch, an important stage coach stop -- the ...

5.5" x 7.5 albumen image, mounted on 6.5" x 9.5" album page. Penciled identification along margin Black Hills May/86. Scene is of a g...

a boudoir-style image, 7.75 x 4.5" on larger mount with Grabill's Sturgis, Dakota Territory imprint. In addition to passengers, these coach...

includes 4.5" x 7" circa 1890 albumen image mounted on larger cream board of a six horse team with inked identification on verso Lucky Bal...

an anonymous albumen photograph of a group of well-dressed men and women seated in or standing in front of a horse-drawn M.T. Hamilton Stage Coach, wi