Breathtaking landscape: A view across the Shoshone Falls, Snake River, Idaho in 1874 as it was caught on camera by photographer Timothy O'Sullivan during Lt. George M. Wheeler's survey west of the One Hundredth Meridian that lasted from 1871 to 1874. Approximately 45 feet higher than the Niagara falls of the U.S and Canada, the Shoshone Falls are sometimes called the 'Niagara of the West'. Before mass migration and industrialisation of the west, the Bannock and Shoshone Indians relied on the huge salmon stocks of the falls as a source of food. And the John C. Fremont Expedition of 1843, one of the first missions to encounter the falls reported that salmon could be caught simply by throwing a spear into the water, such was the stock.
Portrait: Native American (Paiute) men, women
and children pose for a picture near a tree. The picture is thought to
have been taken in Cottonwood Springs (Washoe County), Nevada, in 1875.
Known for his dispassionate views towards native Americans on his
travels, O'Sullivan was more interested in photographing the true
lifestyles of the indigenous people and not a preconceived image that
those back east had. Never asking any native American to change his or
her dress, O'Sullivan's portraits are noted for their simplicity and
truth.
FULL PHOTO ESSAY HERE: The American West as you've never seen it before: Amazing 19th century pictures show the landscape as it was chartered for the first time | Mail Online
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