Wild Westernish Pictures

North American wild western images, including but not limited to: cowboys, indigenous peoples, farming, outlaws, loggers, miners, vaqueros, rednecks, roughnecks, ranchers, soldiers, mountain men, surveyors, pioneers, homesteads, scouts, trailblazers and /or everyday life.

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Johnny Ringo (c. 1880)

Posted 29th Apr 2026u/ansiosper

Mountain man James Beckwourth is born on this date in 1798.

Posted 26th Apr 2026u/Tryingagain1979

The meagerly overseen gold rush boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota Territory c. 1878

Posted 25th Apr 2026u/sean_rooney2000

Apache Kid and other defendants pose in Arizona. (c. 1888)

Posted 17th Apr 2026u/Tryingagain1979

On this date in 1881, Bat Masterson fights in his last shootout.

Posted 16th Apr 2026u/Tryingagain1979

Santa Anita Cowboys Under a Tree (Rancho Santa Anita, California, 1890)

Posted 13th Apr 2026u/Tryingagain1979

On this date in 1881, Billy the Kid was convicted of murder.

Posted 9th Apr 2026u/Tryingagain1979

On this date in 1882, Jesse James was murdered.

Posted 3rd Apr 2026u/Tryingagain1979

On this date in 1876, Wyatt Earp was dropped from the Wichita police force. (photo c. 1887)

Posted 3rd Apr 2026u/Tryingagain1979

On this date in 1860, the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.

Posted 3rd Apr 2026u/Tryingagain1979

On this day in 1804, mountain man Jim Bridger was born in Richmond, Virginia.

Posted 17th Mar 2026u/Tryingagain1979

On this day in 1894, infamous gunslinger John Wesley Hardin is pardoned after spending 15 years in a Texas prison for murder.

Posted 16th Mar 2026u/Tryingagain1979

Wyatt Earp stands next to a custom 1926 Packard, model 326 “Opera Coupe,” Los Angeles (late 1920's)

Posted 10th Mar 2026u/Tryingagain1979

On this day in 1864, a group of vigilantes hanged Jack Slade in Montana.

Posted 10th Mar 2026u/Tryingagain1979

On this date in 1878, long-simmering tensions in Lincoln County, New Mexico, explode into a bloody shooting war when gunmen murder the English rancher John Tunstall.

Posted 18th Feb 2026u/Tryingagain1979

Theodore Roosevelt's diary entry for Valentine's Day (Feb 14, 1884), the day both his wife and his mother died.

Posted 14th Feb 2026u/Tryingagain1979

On this date in 1890, members of the Dalton Gang stage an unsuccessful train robbery near Alila, California—an inauspicious beginning to their careers as serious criminals.

Posted 6th Feb 2026u/Tryingagain1979

Two Blackfeet warriors look across what is now Glacier National Park in Montana in the early 1900s.

Posted 5th Feb 2026u/kooneecheewah

On this day in history in 1889; the outlaw Belle Starr is killed when an unknown assailant fatally wounds the famous “Bandit Queen” with two shotgun blasts from behind.

Posted 3rd Feb 2026u/Tryingagain1979

A young Ute man photographed in Navajo Springs, Arizona. (c. 1893-1903)

Posted 2nd Feb 2026u/JankCranky

"Bucking Bronco" by Frederic Remington, (1895)

Posted 28th Jan 2026u/Tryingagain1979

This photo of a young Charles Goodnight gives us a good idea of how the 31-year-old looked at the time of the Comanche attack that led to the death of his partner.

Posted 26th Jan 2026u/Tryingagain1979

A contemporary counterfeit California gold piece, featuring a gold panner, that obviously got some use and fooled a good few people

Posted 26th Jan 2026u/SmaugTheGreat110

1886: Musicians on State Street near Figueroa Street, Santa Barbara CA.

Posted 23rd Jan 2026u/PeteHealy

Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (Oriana Day, c.1877–84)

Posted 20th Jan 2026u/tip-toe-thru-tulips

Wyatt Earp, participant in the famous 1881 shoot-out at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, died peacefully at the age of 81, in Los Angeles, California, on this date in 1929. This portrait of Earp is dated 1925.

Posted 13th Jan 2026u/Tryingagain1979

"This photo shows the railroad track crew celebrating as the Sunset route is completed just west of the Pecos River in Texas." (c. 1883)

Posted 12th Jan 2026u/Tryingagain1979

Buffalo Bill and his estranged wife Lulu

Posted 11th Jan 2026u/Conjuring1900

On this day in 1917, Buffalo Bill Cody dies.

Posted 10th Jan 2026u/PublicAdventurous917

Final picture of Buffalo Bill Cody taken six days before his death - Glenwood Springs, January 4, 1917

Posted 10th Jan 2026u/KidCharlem

Dude Ranching: "The Eaton brothers of Pittsburgh, Pa., shown here in 1890 with their families at the Custer Trail Ranch near Medora, Dakota Territory."

Posted 7th Jan 2026u/Tryingagain1979

On this date in 1919, Teddy Roosevelt dies.

Posted 6th Jan 2026u/Tryingagain1979

"Pearl Hart and Joe Boot robbed this stagecoach in Kane Spring Canyon on the Globe to Florence road on May 29, 1899. Photo circa 1899" -John Boessenecker and true west magazine

Posted 4th Jan 2026u/Tryingagain1979

Buffalo Bill Cody Annie Oakley canvas painting advertisement 1885

Posted 3rd Jan 2026u/CCCESTATESALES

An unidentified Ute man on a hunt (1899)

Posted 2nd Jan 2026u/JankCranky

Top 10 r/wildwestpics posts of 2025: #1: 'Steamboat, the horse that is featured on Wyoming license plates.'

Posted 1st Jan 2026u/Tryingagain1979

Rising underground water and the low price of silver put an end to mining at Tombstone on this date in 1911.

Posted 1st Jan 2026u/Tryingagain1979

Carlos Montezuma (born Wassaja) was captured and enslaved at the age of 5 in 1871. He was sold to an Italian photographer for $30, went on to tour with Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack, became the first Native American man to earn an MD, and fought the US government for indigenous rights.

Posted 31st Dec 2025u/KidCharlem

Top 10 r/wildwestpics posts of 2025: #2: 'Dogs were an important part of the Uinta Ute culture.' (c. 1870s)

Posted 28th Dec 2025u/Tryingagain1979

Top 10 r/wildwestpics posts of 2025: #3: 'Last photo of Wyatt Earp. It was taken on January 11, 1929. He would die 2 days later from Cystitis at the age of 80.'

Posted 25th Dec 2025u/Tryingagain1979

'Cow-Boys Coming to Town for Christmas' | Frederic Remington | 1889

Posted 25th Dec 2025u/Tryingagain1979

Here is a rare photograph of three Apache girls who claimed to have been kidnapped by the Apache Kid. At the bottom of the photo, someone has written notes describing the kidnappings. The first note states: “I-vo-ash-ay, a San Carlos woman abducted from Reservation by Apache Kid in September, 1890.

Posted 23rd Dec 2025u/HardiHaHa7

On This Day in 1884: John Chisum, the cattle baron whose shadow loomed large over the Lincoln County War, died in Arkansas.

Posted 23rd Dec 2025u/Tryingagain1979

Top 10 r/wildwestpics posts of 2025: #4: 'Calamity Jane in Deadwood, South Dakota (c. 1876)'

Posted 21st Dec 2025u/Tryingagain1979

Some called Archie Clement (left) the "head devil" of "Bloody Bill" Anderson's guerrilla gang. He took part in the vicious Centralia massacre of 1864. Clement was killed in 1866.

Posted 19th Dec 2025u/AffectionateSalt3724

Top 10 r/wildwestpics posts of 2025: #5: 'The final picture of Buffalo Bill Cody, a few days before his death on January 10, 1917.'

Posted 18th Dec 2025u/Tryingagain1979

A group of buffalo hunters taken in denver colorado by charles bohm September 15 1878.

Posted 17th Dec 2025u/HerHymn

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