How the Wild West REALLY looked: Gorgeous sepia-tinted pictures
show the landscape as it was charted for the very first time By
Rob Cooper These remarkable 19th century sepia-tinted pictures
show the American West as you have never seen it before - as it
was charted for the first time. The photos, by Timothy
O'Sullivan, are the first ever taken of the rocky and barren
landscape. At the time federal government officials were
travelling across Arizona, Nevada, Utah and the rest of the west
as they sought to uncover the land's untapped natural resources.
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