Wild West photos of Timothy O Sullivan

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)

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

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

3. Vicinity of Cedar, Utah, in 1872.

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

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

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

7. Canyon de Shay, Arizona, 1863.

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

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

10. Browns Park, Colorado, in 1872.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

18. Canyon Lodor, Colorado, in 1872.

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

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

21. Hot spring Pagosa, Colorado, 1874.

22. Santa Fe, new Mexico, 1873.

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

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

25. Mountain Mesa, Arizona, 1871.

26. Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, 1869.

27. Vasaki of Badlands, Wyoming, in 1872.

28. White mountains, Arizona, 1873.

29. Shoshone falls, Idaho, 1868.

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