Plains Gallery

Telegraph poles following the transcontinental railroad

Linemen stringing telegraph wire beside the transcontinental railroad on the Great Plains, 1860s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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HSET2A-00125

African-American buffalo soldier riding a frisky horse fresh from the herd, 1880s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by Frederic Remington

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Interior of a Sioux tipi

Buffalo robes and pillows inside a Sioux tepee made of buffalo hide, Wicoti Living History Lakota Encampment, Hill City, South Dakota.
Digital photograph

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