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Big Horn Ditch Head Gate

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Description: The head gate at the Big Horn Ditch on the Crow Reservation in northeast Wyoming. Men are working with cranes near a tent with a chimney spewing out smoke.
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Eating Near the Chuck Wagon

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Description: A dozen or so ranch hands sitting on the ground and eating on the plain. The chuckwagon is behind them. A large coffee pot and a bucket of rolls is on the ...
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Cowboy on a Personalized Postcard

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Description: Postcard of a portrait of a cowboy, with a super-imposed pennant that reads: "Yours Truly ~" with a blank line underneath. The man is wearing a hat, shirt ...
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A "Hog-Tied" Buffalo

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Description: Many ranch hands posing in, and in front of, a barn, with a buffalo tied up on the ground. A woman and many children the second floor of the barn are looki...
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Hog-Tying a Buffalo

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Description: Ranch hands in the process of hog-tying a buffalo. Men, women, and children watch from inside the barn on the first and second floors and from the roof. A ...
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"Frontier Days" Rodeo

Date: 1910
Description: View of a "Frontier Days" Rodeo. A man holding his hat in one hand is riding a bronco while two other men run nearby. A circle of observers on horseback st...
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"Frontier Days" Rodeo

Date: 1910
Description: View of a "Frontier Days" Rodeo. A man is riding a bucking bronco while four other men surround him. A circle of observers on horseback are behind a barric...
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"Frontier Days" Rodeo

Date: 1910
Description: A man is riding a bucking bronco while another man rides in front of him at a "Frontier Days" rodeo.
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"Frontier Days" Rodeo

Date: 1910
Description: A man is riding a bucking bronco while two other men try to calm it at a "Frontier Days" rodeo.
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"Frontier Days" Rodeo

Date: 1910
Description: A man is riding a bucking bronco at a "Frontier Days" rodeo.
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"Frontier Days" Rodeo

Date: 1910
Description: Four men attempt to saddle a bucking bronco at a "Frontier Days" rodeo. Observers stand in the background looking on.
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"Frontier Days" Rodeo

Date: 1910
Description: A man is holding his hat while riding a bucking bronco. Other men are following him on horseback at a "Frontier Days" rodeo. Observers look on from behind ...
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"Frontier Days" Rodeo

Date: 1910
Description: Four men approach a bucking bronco at a "Frontier Days" rodeo. A group of observers on horseback are in the background.
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"Frontier Days" Rodeo

Date: 1910
Description: Rodeo producer, Verne Elliott (1890-1962) rides a bucking buffalo at a "Frontier Days" rodeo. In the background are observers on horseback.
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"Frontier Days" Rodeo

Date: 1910
Description: Three cowboys wearing sheepskin chaps convene on the field at a "Frontier Days" rodeo. In the background are observers on horseback.
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Missile Replacement

Date: 1986
Description: Three people standing in a field watching a missile replacement (large trailer lifted at an angle behind a barbed wire fence) at an Mx installation. Near t...
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Grace Raymond Hebard at Sacajawea's Grave

Date: 1926
Description: A woman holding flowers is standing between two graves, looking at the one on the left. Caption reads: "Wind River Indian Reservation (formerly the Shosho...
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Sun Dance Near Fort Washakie

Date: 1900
Description: A group of men posing together in front of a stand of trees. Caption reads: "Indian 'Sun Dance' near Fort Washakie, Wyo, 1900."
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Chief Sharp Nose and Captain William C. Brown

Date: 1899
Description: Two men smiling and shake hands outdoors. The man on the right is wearing a military uniform, and the man on the left is holding a rifle. There is a buildi...

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