Frontier Gallery

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Native Americans exchanging furs for goods at a Hudson Bay Company post. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut of a Frederic Remington illustration

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US Army survivors of Custers Last Stand - horse and scout, Curley

Horse "Comanche" and Custer's scout Curley, the only US Army survivors of the Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a photograph

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Building the railroad to Bismarck, North Dakota, 1870s

Laying railroad track in winter across the Missouri River at Bismarck, North Dakota, 1879.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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