Dodge City in 1874, courtesy of Ford County Historical Society.
Old West Photographs and Prints
Oregon Trail Ruts at Rock Creek, Nebraska, by Kathy Alexander.
The California Trail – Rush to Gold
The Chisholm Trail – Herding the Cattle
Corps of Discovery – The Lewis & Clark Expedition
Oregon Trail – Pathway to the West
Pathways To the West – a 1918 Account
Pony Express – Fasted Mail Across the West
Santa Fe Trail – Highway to the Southwest
Old West Destinations by State
Gunfight recreation in Oatman by Kathy Alexander.
Bent’s Fort, Colorado, by Kathy Alexander.
Canyon Diablo – Meaner Than Tombstone
Chloride – Preserving the Past
Fort Bowie National Historic Site
Holbrook – Too Tough For Women or Churches
Jerome – Copper Queen on the Hill
Sunnyside – A Different Kind of Ghost Town
Fort Smith National Historic Site
Prairie Grove Battlefield Rich in History
Ballarat – Death Valley Ghost Town
Calico – Revived From A Desert Grave
Coloma – Gold Town to Ghost Town
Fort Alcatraz – Defending the Western Coast
Fort Point – Standing Guard at the Golden Gate
Old Sacramento – Walking on History
Placerville – Hub of the Mother Lode
Bent’s Fort National Historic Site
Cripple Creek – World’s Greatest Gold Camp
Old Abilene Town, Kansas, by Kathy Alexander.
Shakespeare, New Mexico, by Kathy Alexander.
Abilene – Queen of the Kansas Cowtowns
Baxter Springs – First Kansas Cow Town
Caldwell, Kansas – The Wicked Border Queen
Dodge City – A Wicked Little Town
Ellsworth – Another Wicked Kansas Cowtown
Haunted Hollenberg Pony Express Station in Hanover
Kansas Cowtowns – Lawlessness on the Prairie
Leavenworth – Oldest Military Post West of the Mississippi
Nicodemus – A Black Pioneer Town
White Cloud – Not Quite Ghostly
St. Joseph, Missouri – Jumping Off To the West
Weston – The Town That Refused to Die
Eldorado Canyon – Lawlessness on the Colorado River
Goldfield – Queen of the Mining Camps
Gold Point – Waxing & Waning Through Time
Rhyolite – Little More Than a Memory
Tybo – Plight of the Chinese in a Nevada Goldcamp
Albuquerque – 300 Year Old Duke City
Cimarron – Wild and Baudy Boomtown
Elizabethtown – Gone But Not Forgotten
Fort Sumner, New Mexico – Pride of the Pecos
Golden, New Mexico Has Seen Better Days
Las Vegas, New Mexico – More Wicked Than Dodge City
Los Cerrillos – Two Thousand Years of History
Shakespeare – Born Again and Again
Deadwood, South Dakota, by Kathy Alexander.
The Alamo, by Kathy Alexander.
Chandler – Last Gunfight of the Old West
El Reno -Home of the Oklahoma Land Rush
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site
Shaniko – Wool Capitol of the World
Sumpter – Queen City Ghost Town
Amarillo, Texas – Panhandle Cowtown
Fort Griffin – Lawlessness on the Brazos
Old Mobeetie – Panhandle Mother City
©Kathy Alexander/Legends of America, updated March 2023.