Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

Categories: History | Nature | North America

Since childhood, the Wild West associated with vast prairies, for which the jump of the brave the cowboys, firing from the treacherous Indians, then to the saloon to tell friends about their adventures between a couple of glasses of whiskey.

The photographs of Timothy O Sullivan the cowboys no. There is only the enchanting beauty of Utah, Colorado, new Mexico and Idaho.

Timothy O'sullivan (1840-1882) began photographing as a teenager. After the Civil war, O'sullivan has participated in several expeditions to the Wild West, which was organized by the government. He, in fact, had to do advertising photography: his images of the Western lands were needed to attract new settlers.

So the whole world first saw the Wild West, and the work of Timothy O'sullivan entered the history of photography.

(30 photos)

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

1. Shoshone falls on the snake river, Idaho, 1874.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

2. Shore of the Colorado river, Mohave County, Arizona, 1871.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

3. Vicinity of Cedar, Utah, in 1872.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

4. Near the town of green river, Wyoming in 1892.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

5. The participants of the "Geological expedition along the 40th parallel," under the leadership of Clarence king near Orani, Nevada, 1867.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

6. The accumulation of the tuff rocks on the lake Pyramid in Nevada, 1867.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

7. Canyon de Shay, Arizona, 1863.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

8. The old Church at Zuni Pueblo, new Mexico. The view from the square, 1873.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

9. The members of the expeditions of Lieutenant Wheeler and American Indians, 1871.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

10. Browns Park, Colorado, in 1872.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

11. Shore of the Colorado river in iceberg Canyon, on the border between Arizona and Nevada, 1871.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

12. Mining town of gold hill, South of Virginia city, Nevada, 1867.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

13. The top of the Canyon de Shay, whose depth is 366 metres, Arizona, 1873.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

14. Land to the North of the Colorado plateau, 1872.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

15. Men, women and children of the tribe Pautov pose for a photo under a tree in the vicinity of Cottonwood springs, Washoe, Nevada, in 1875.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

16. The junction of the green Canyon and Yampa Canyon, Utah, 1872.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

17. The daily life of the Navajo Indians, the state of new Mexico, 1873.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

18. Canyon Lodor, Colorado, in 1872.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

19. The ruins of the "White house" of the Pueblo Indians in the Canyon de Shay, Arizona, 1873.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

20. Expedition on the Truckee river in Western Nevada, 1867.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

21. Hot spring Pagosa, Colorado, 1874.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

22. Santa Fe, new Mexico, 1873.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

23. Indian tribe the Mojave, Colorado, and 1871.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

24. The town of Alta, little Cottonwood, Utah, 1873.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

25. Mountain Mesa, Arizona, 1871.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

26. Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, 1869.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

27. Vasaki of Badlands, Wyoming, in 1872.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

28. White mountains, Arizona, 1873.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

29. Shoshone falls, Idaho, 1868.

Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

30. South side of the rock with petroglyphs (currently a national monument El Morro) in El Morro, new Mexico, 1873.

Keywords: Wild West | Colorado | New Mexico | Utah

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