An emigrant wagon train crossing the plains on a journey from Kentucky to California during the westward expansion of the United States, circa 1850....
Frances Flora Bond Palmer, , American, born England, 1812 - 1876, James Merritt Ives, , American, 1824 - 1895, Currier and Ives, , 1857 - 1907,...
Native Americans and settlers meet at a trading encampment near the Platte River. Original Artist: By W. H. Jackson.
Wagon train encampment during the westward expansion of the United States, circa 1860. Engraving by Samuel Sartain after W.H. Wilcox
Illustration titled 'The March of the Caravan,' depicting a wagon train passing over the prairie, taken from 'Commerce of the Prairies' by Josiah...
Sketches in the far west--westward expansion: Arkansas pilgrims crossing the plains by covered wagon. Tavernier engraving, undated.
View of buildings, in a small frontier town on the Plains, during America's westward expansion era, nineteenth century.
Four Native American horsemen witness the arrival of a boatload of settlers in the American west. Original Artist: By Frederic Remington .
White trader and a Native American engaged in bargaining on the plains. The trader offers a bottle of alcohol to his pipe-smoking friend. Wood...
Illustration titled 'The Overland Route,' depicting a wagon train taking a rest, taken from 'Life On The Plains' by Delano. USA, 1854. .
The Rocky Mountains, looking westward, USA, 1856. The United States Pacific Railroad Survey party crosses an area west of present-day Helena,...
Moving Day During the Westward Migration. Woodcut by Th. R. Davis, 1869. What a difference between the primitive "long distance vans" of today and...
Color map, entitled 'Map No 7, the Territorial Growth of the United States, 1783 - 1866,' shows the country's westward expansion and illustrates the...
American explorer John C Fremont planting the American flag on the Rocky Mountains. In 1856 Fremont was the first Presidential nominee of the newly...
Wagon train, drawn by oxen, travelling across the plains during the westward expansion of the United States, circa 1850. Engraving by F.O.C. Darley.
Painting by William Henry Jackson, titled 'Independence Rock on the Mormon Trail' depicting numerous wagons in a field with Independence Rock in the...
Painting, Manifest Destiny. Shows a female figure, Potentially an angel, leading the pioneers westward. They travel by foot, stagecoaches and...
Wagon train bearing goods to the new settlements makes its way westwards, before the implementation of railroads. A woman walks alongside the oxen,...
Colorized lithograph depicts a wagon train of pioneers and their animals as they cross the plains of North America, 1869.
Engraving with the caption 'Camp Comanche,' depicting a wagon train formed into a circle as they bed down for the night, taken from 'Commerce of the...
Pioneer family poses for a portrait outside their mud-brick habitat on the Great Plains in the Dakota Territory, late 20th Century.
Circa 1740, A Moravian Church missionary preaching to a group of Native American Indians in Pennsylvania.
Camp Stevens, looking westward, Montana, USA, 1856. Camp Stevens served as a base for metereological observation and side explorations in the Rocky...
Exterior view, with two men visible, of JL Niebergall, billed as the headquarters for Gents Furnishings Boots & Shoes, in an unidentified frontier...
Illustration of American settlers at a camp while crossing the plains during the Westward Expansion, circa 1850.
Cartoon showing American politicians Stephen A Douglas , former President Franklin Pierce , President James Buchanan and Lewis Cass forcing slavery...
Illustration depicting 'The Bar of a Gambling Saloon,' with men standing at the bar, and a drunk slumped in a chair. USA, date unknown.
Series of illustrations titled 'Crossing The Plains,' from 'Hutchins Panoramic Scenes,' depicting 'Emigrant train passing Wind River Mountain,'...
Painting by Mary Wright Gill depicts the Shalako ceremony of the Zuni tribe, early 1900s . The ceremony is held, in part, to give thanks for the...
Couple pose with their dog outside their home, which appears to be insulated with bricks of sod, late 1800s or early 1900s.
Woman holds an infant in her arms as she poses in front of a claim shack, early 1910s. The structure, mostly walled in tar paper, served to lay claim...
Three people, a man and two women, sit on the roof of a claim shack somewhere on the Great Plains in the American midwest, early 1910s. The...
Family of prosperous and sturdy pioneers poses for a group portrait outside their habitat, Western US, late 19th Century.
Many styles of dress and many interesting types are to be seen in the above photograph, made in 1886 when the first of the immigrant trains rushed...
View of a handful of buildings, in a small frontier town on the Plains, during America's westward expansion era, nineteenth century.
View of a general merchandise store and other buildings in a frontier town on the Plains, during America's westward expansion era, nineteenth century.
Crowd gathering around a man reading the news of American successes in Mexico which led to the ceding to the United States of California and New...
Studio portrait of American pioneer Calamity Jane , wearing a fringed leather jacket, leather pants, and a cowboy hat, holding a rifle while sitting...
Theodore Roosevelt , the twenty-sixth President of the United States, with the Scottish born American conservationist John Muir on Glacier Point in...
Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden's survey camp near Pelican Creek, fifteen miles east of Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming. Photograph by William Henry Jackson