The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Categories: History | Nature | North America

Since childhood, we have associated the Wild West with endless prairies, along which brave cowboys jump, shooting back from treacherous Indians, so that later in the saloon they can tell their friends about their adventures between a couple of glasses of whiskey.

There are no cowboys in Timothy O'Sullivan's pictures. There is only the mesmerizing beauty of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Idaho.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-1882) began photographing as a teenager. After the Civil War, O'Sullivan took part in several expeditions to the Wild West, which were organized by the government. He, in fact, had to make advertising photographs: his pictures of the western lands were needed to attract new settlers there.

So the whole world saw the Wild West for the first time, and the works of Timothy O'Sullivan went down in the history of photography.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Shoshoni Falls on the Snake River, Idaho, 1874.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

The shore of the Colorado River, Mojave County, Arizona, 1871.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

The neighborhood of Cedar, Utah, 1872.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Near Green River, Wyoming, 1892.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Participants of the "Geological expedition along the 40th Parallel" under the leadership of Clarence King near Orena, Nevada, 1867.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

A cluster of tuff rocks on Pyramid Lake in Nevada, 1867.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Canyon de Shay, Arizona, 1863.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

An old church in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. View from the square, 1873.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Members of Lieutenant Wheeler's expedition and American Indians, 1871.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Browns Park, Colorado, 1872.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

The shore of the Colorado River in Iceberg Canyon on the border between the states of Arizona and Nevada, 1871.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Gold Hill mining town south of Virginia City, Nevada, 1867.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

The top of the Canyon-de-Shay, whose depth is 366 meters, Arizona, 1873.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Lands north of the Colorado Plateau, 1872.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Paiute men, women and children pose for a photo under a tree in the vicinity of Cottonwood Springs, Washoe, Nevada, 1875.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

The junction of Green Canyon and Yampa Canyon, Utah, 1872.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Everyday life of the Navajo Indians, New Mexico, 1873.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Lodor Canyon, Colorado, 1872.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Ruins of the" White House " of the Pueblo Indians in Canyon de Shay, Arizona, 1873.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Expedition on the Truckee River in western Nevada, 1867.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Pagosa Hot Spring, Colorado, 1874.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1873.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

An Indian woman from the Mojave tribe, Colorado, 1871.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

The city of Alta, Little Cottonwood, Utah, 1873.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Mount Mesa, Arizona, 1871.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, 1869.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Washaki Bedlands, Wyoming, 1872.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

White Mountains, Arizona, 1873.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Shoshone Falls, Idaho, 1868.

The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

The south side of the rock with petroglyphs (now the El Morro National Monument) in El Morro, New Mexico, 1873.

Keywords: Nature | North america | History | Colorado | Utah | Wild west | New mexico

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