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16 Raw Photos That Show the Wild West Like Never Before

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The American Wild West continues to fascinate us today. Movies paint pictures of gun-slinging cowboys and saloon brawls. TV shows romanticize outlaw adventures across dusty plains. These entertaining stories shaped how we imagine frontier life.

The actual historical record tells a different story. Frontier settlers faced harsh realities daily—brutal weather, crop failures, and isolation killed far more people than any shootout. Daily life consisted mostly of hard work and struggle, not heroic gunfights.

Yet both Hollywood's version and historical reality share one truth: people were drawn to the frontier's promise of freedom and opportunity. These 16 remarkable photographs reveal increasingly surprising glimpses into authentic Wild West life. Take a look at what the history books missed.

1. A “Hotel” in the Wild West, 1893

2. A man and his dog, the 1870s

3. Ranch, Arizona, 1909

4. Seven Crow chiefs outside a building, Montana, 1887

5. Camp wagon doing a rest stop in Texas

6. A cowboy in the Dakota territories, 1888

Related: History: What Was it Like Being an Old West Sheriff?

7. Two Apsáalooke (the name of the Crow tribe of Native Americans) on horseback outside of a tipi in a snow-covered forest in Montana, 1908

8. Boss Caswell's Monkey Saloon. Granite, Colorado, early 1880's

9. Two Navajo (a Native American tribe) on horseback near the base of Shiprock in New Mexico, 1914

10. The bar at the notorious Gem Theater, Deadwood, South Dakota. 1880s

11. Navajo riders crossing the desert in Arizona’s Canyon de Chelly. 1904

12. Lincoln County War fighters, 1878. They likely participated on both sides.

13. A sod homestead. Custer County, Nebraska, 1888

14. A cowboy aiming a rifle at a herd of buffalo, 1935

Related: Who Were the Old West's Most Infamous Lawmen? Find Out

15. Roundup camp, Arizona, 1909

16. Working the herd. Shoe Bar Ranch, Texas, 1912

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