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Early settlers on the coach to Deadwood and in pow-wows with the natives revealed in 19th century photographs

Posted by admin on Mar 10, 2011

The Wild West as it really was rather than how Hollywood has imagined it is revealed in this extraordinary collection of pictures.

The grainy photographs, taken in the late 19th century in and around the notorious gold mining town of Deadwood, provide a unique, sepia-toned glimpse of the Wild West. The images were published in American papers this week after being released by the U.S. Library of Congress.

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