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Hot Springs, on Gardiner's River, Cap of Liberty

Hot Springs, on Gardiner's River, Cap of Liberty

No. 436. Part of series: Scenery of the Yellowstone, 1871. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixtur... More

Yellowstone Lake, Mary's Bay - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Yellowstone Lake, Mary's Bay - stereoscopic view, public domain photor...

No. 455. Part of series: Scenery of the Yellowstone, 1871. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixtur... More

Yellowstone Lake, Mary's Bay / W.H. Jackson, photo. Washington, D.C.

Yellowstone Lake, Mary's Bay / W.H. Jackson, photo. Washington, D.C.

Photograph shows a man standing on the shore of Mary Bay, Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming. No. 289. Yellowstone Series, 1871. Exhibited: "The Universal Archive : The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photogra... More

The Yellowstone region - the great American geysers of the Fire-hole basin
Scenery of the Yellowstone National Park. 217 Mammoth Hot Springs, lower basins, looking up

Scenery of the Yellowstone National Park. 217 Mammoth Hot Springs, low...

No. 217. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy s... More

Old Faithful in action - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Old Faithful in action - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

In album: Journey through the Yellowstone National Park and Northwestern Wyoming, 1883 : photographs of party and scenery along the route traveled and copies of the Associated Press dispatches sent whilst en r... More

Mammoth Hot Springs, top of pulpits

Mammoth Hot Springs, top of pulpits

"W.H. Jackson Phot. Co., Denver." Copyright deposit no. 44069. On back, in pencil, reads, "[1092, 1657, 1658]" and "138". No Detroit Publishing Co. no. Copyright deposit. State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Yellowstone Lake - Yellowstone National Park, mammoth plate negative

Yellowstone Lake - Yellowstone National Park, mammoth plate negative

Public domain photograph of Yellowstone National Park, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Frances Benjamin Johnston at picnic table in Yellowstone National Park

Frances Benjamin Johnston at picnic table in Yellowstone National Park

Photo from destroyed nitrate neg. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

They were soldier boys together - Pres. Roosevelt greeting Spanish War veterans, Laramie, Wyoming

They were soldier boys together - Pres. Roosevelt greeting Spanish War...

H33924 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of Theodore Roosevelt political campaign, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Wyo. - Yellowstone National Park: prospector or guide]

[Wyo. - Yellowstone National Park: prospector or guide]

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Yellowstone National Park., Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park., Yellowstone National Park

Wall map. Includes spot heights. "Copyright 1904 by Henry Wellge, Milwaukee. Transferred to the Northern Pacific Railway Company." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Moun... More

Amidst America's noblest scenery - President Roosevelt on Glacier Point,Yellowstone Valley, California

Amidst America's noblest scenery - President Roosevelt on Glacier Poin...

Public domain photograph related to Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Monuments to General Custer and his brave men who fell about him, Custer Battlefield, Wyo.

Monuments to General Custer and his brave men who fell about him, Cust...

H67550 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 4G. Public domain photograph - monument, cemetery, graves, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - cemetery, graves, free... More

Riverside Geyser, Yellowstone Park view, photochrome print postcard.

Riverside Geyser, Yellowstone Park view, photochrome print postcard.

Copyright 1905 by Detroit Photographic Co. Title on inventory list: Riverside Geyser, Yellowstone. Caption for similar image in LOT 11959-16 (LC-USZ62-100943) lists title as: Fire Hole River, Yellowstone Park.... More

The Wyoming Massacre - A drawing of a man on a horse with a spear

The Wyoming Massacre - A drawing of a man on a horse with a spear

Battle between White Men and Indians, Wyoming, Pa. Halftone repro. of painting by F.O.C. Darley, copyrighted by John D. Morris & Co. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Jupiter Terrace, Yellowstone National Park

Jupiter Terrace, Yellowstone National Park

People on stagecoach in foreground. Copyright by Detroit Photographic Co. No. 018194.

Yellowstone Nat. Park. Fossil Forests
St. scene, Laramie, Wyo.,  Panoramic Photograph

St. scene, Laramie, Wyo., Panoramic Photograph

H116898 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O. Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; October 12, 1908; DLC/PP-1908:43571.

Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming

Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming

Group of people in foreground; geysers in background. Copyright by Harry Shipler(?).

Launch of WYOMING, 5/25/11 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Launch of WYOMING, 5/25/11 - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Public domain photograph of industrial building, factory, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prince of Monaco -- Col. Cody - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Prince of Monaco -- Col. Cody - Glass negative photogrpah. Public doma...

Photo shows Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1848-1922) with William "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917) during their 1913 hunting trip near Cody, Wyoming. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

MAINE Monument comm[i]tee on WYOMING

MAINE Monument comm[i]tee on WYOMING

Photo shows the Maine Monument Committee aboard the Wyoming, the battleship which led the fleet during the unveiling ceremonies for the memorial to the battleship Maine, which had exploded in the harbor of ... More

MONDELL, FRANK WHEELER. REP. FROM WYOMING, 1895-1897, 1899-1923

MONDELL, FRANK WHEELER. REP. FROM WYOMING, 1895-1897, 1899-1923

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Adm. F.F. Fletcher - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Adm. F.F. Fletcher - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photograph shows U.S. Navy Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher (1855-1928), Commander of the Atlantic fleet probably on the USS Wyoming for the Naval review of May, 1915, in New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons pr... More

Man fly-casting at Fishing Cove, Yellowstone Lake

Man fly-casting at Fishing Cove, Yellowstone Lake

Photo by Haynes. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Yellowstone vista, with Price family members

Yellowstone vista, with Price family members

Photograph shows Robert V. Price, Ruth Price and their mother Lucile Price at a geyser field in Yellowstone National Park. Title and digital scan supplied by donor. Date based on the approximate age of the Pric... More

Governor R.D. Carey of Wyoming at W.H., 1/29/25

Governor R.D. Carey of Wyoming at W.H., 1/29/25

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U. of Wyoming debators, 3/27/26

U. of Wyoming debators, 3/27/26

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a group of people, 1900s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Obsidian Cliff Kiosk, Near Obsidian Cliff on Grand Loop Road, Mammoth, Park County, WY

Obsidian Cliff Kiosk, Near Obsidian Cliff on Grand Loop Road, Mammoth,...

Survey number: HABS WY-99 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 96000973

Fort Fred Steele, Officer's Quarters, Fort Steele, Carbon County, WY
Trail Shop, Large Water Cistern, 455' southeast of Northwest corner of Lodge, Cody, Park County, WY

Trail Shop, Large Water Cistern, 455' southeast of Northwest corner of...

Significance: The large water cistern is part of the Trail Shop complex, which was established halfway between Cody and Yellowstone National Park in 1922 by Wylie Sherwin to accommodate auto and bus tourists. ... More

Mercantile Bar, Atlantic City, Fremont County, WY

Mercantile Bar, Atlantic City, Fremont County, WY

Survey number: HABS WY-63 Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Snowlodge, Tourist Cabin Type O No. 419A, 480' southwest of Snowlodge, West Thumb, Teton County, WY

Snowlodge, Tourist Cabin Type O No. 419A, 480' southwest of Snowlodge,...

Survey number: HABS WY-126-M National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 82001839

Farm near Jackson, Wyoming. 1930s public domain photogrpaph.

Farm near Jackson, Wyoming. 1930s public domain photogrpaph.

Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A cow grazing in the shadow of the Grand Tetons. Wyoming

A cow grazing in the shadow of the Grand Tetons. Wyoming

Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Sheep herder. Natrona County, Wyoming
Shearing sheep. Converse County, Wyoming

Shearing sheep. Converse County, Wyoming

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

A black and white photo of a man on a horse, Sheep herder. Natrona County, Wyoming

A black and white photo of a man on a horse, Sheep herder. Natrona Cou...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Abandoned house at the abandoned town of Cambria, Wyoming

Abandoned house at the abandoned town of Cambria, Wyoming

Picryl description: Public domain image of historical building ruins, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Main street of Cambria, Wyoming. Ghost mining town

Main street of Cambria, Wyoming. Ghost mining town

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

[Sen. H.H. Schwartz, Wyoming] - Public domain portrait photograph

[Sen. H.H. Schwartz, Wyoming] - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a man pointing to a map. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Bridger, Wyoming - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Fort Bridger, Wyoming - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Medicine Bow, Wyoming - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Medicine Bow, Wyoming - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dairy cows and cattle grazing. Laramie, Wyoming

Dairy cows and cattle grazing. Laramie, Wyoming

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Grazing land and grass on King ranch. Laramie, Wyoming

Grazing land and grass on King ranch. Laramie, Wyoming

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Snake River Valley near Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Snake River Valley near Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ranch buildings on King ranch. Laramie, Wyoming

Ranch buildings on King ranch. Laramie, Wyoming

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ranch buildings, Laramie, Wyoming

Ranch buildings, Laramie, Wyoming

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural countryside landscape, farmhouse, farm field, pasture free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hotel in Big Piney, Wyoming - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Hotel in Big Piney, Wyoming - safety film negatives, Library of Congre...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

General store in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

General store in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Public domain photograph of cars, gas station, car garage, 20th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Grazing land and grass on King ranch. Laramie, Wyoming

Grazing land and grass on King ranch. Laramie, Wyoming

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Helper on wagonload of wheat to be threshed on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 150 acres in all (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat; the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year they are getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels wheat per acre, whereas ordinarily he gets about forty bushels per acre. He has lived on the place forty years, owned it for the past twenty years

Helper on wagonload of wheat to be threshed on Beerman's ranch at Embl...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

American bison, or buffalo, bones at the Vore Buffalo Jump, a sinkhole and archeological site in Crook County, Wyoming

American bison, or buffalo, bones at the Vore Buffalo Jump, a sinkhole...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Native American hunters stampeded bison in the direction of the pit, which was deep enough to kill or disable the animals that were dr... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Aladdin mining tipple, Aladdin, Wyoming

Carol M. Highsmith - Aladdin mining tipple, Aladdin, Wyoming

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Skeleton of an animal in rural Wyoming

Skeleton of an animal in rural Wyoming

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

BPOE Elks sign, Sheridan, Wyoming

BPOE Elks sign, Sheridan, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Margolies category: Main Street. Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142). Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photogr... More

Thomas Perry Homestead, East side of Mormon Row Road, approximately .6 miles south of Antelope Flats Road, bounded on the north by Ditch Creek, Kelly, Teton County, WY
Yellowstone National Park in the northwest corner of Wyoming, small additional park acreage also spills into neighboring Idaho and Montana, is closed to motor traffic except snomobiles and snow coaches with tanklike treads, and those are restricted to roadways. Heavier blankets of snow are equally common in the park's bitter wintertime, posing a survival hazard for wildlife

Yellowstone National Park in the northwest corner of Wyoming, small ad...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Steam rises from a mudpot along Fountain Paint Pot Nature Trail in Yellowstone National Park in the western U.S. state of Wyoming

Steam rises from a mudpot along Fountain Paint Pot Nature Trail in Yel...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The Old Faithful geyser faithfully erupts in the Wyoming portion of Yellowstone National Park, which makes up the lion's share of the nation's first national park. Small pieces of the park also spill into neighboring Idaho and Montana. Old Faithful was named in 1870 during the Washburn-Langford-Doane surveying expedition and was the first geyser in the park to receive a name. It is one of the most predictable geographical features on Earth, erupting every 35 to 120 minutes

The Old Faithful geyser faithfully erupts in the Wyoming portion of Ye...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A herd of American bison, or buffaloes, forage while they can in the cruel wintertime of the northernmost Wyoming reaches of Yellowstone National Park. Winds in the park's fierce blizzards can turn a few inches of snow into several feet, forcing the bison to trudge elsewhere or survive on saplings and tree bark for a time

A herd of American bison, or buffaloes, forage while they can in the c...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Temperatures often dip below freezing, but there's no cooling of the thermal features in Yellowstone National Park in the northwest corner of Wyoming. (Small additional park acreage also spills into neighboring Idaho and Montana.) Heavier blankets of snow are equally common in the park's bitter wintertime, posing a survival hazard for wildlife

Temperatures often dip below freezing, but there's no cooling of the t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

An American bison, or buffalo, plods through the snow near the Madison River in the vast Wyoming portion of Yellowstone National Park. Smaller sections are in neighboring Idaho and Montana

An American bison, or buffalo, plods through the snow near the Madison...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A buffalo, or American bison, strikes a nonchalant pose on a snow-covered road in the northernmost Wyoming reaches of Yellowstone National Park. The bison are comfortable with humans, too comfortable, sometimes, as reckless visitors can and do sometimes get attacked after coming too close to, and even trying snap "selfie" photographs of, these wild animals

A buffalo, or American bison, strikes a nonchalant pose on a snow-cove...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Buffaloes, or American bison, trudge through the snow in the northernmost Wyoming reaches of Yellowstone National Park

Buffaloes, or American bison, trudge through the snow in the northernm...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The well-worn bar inside the Mint Bar, a downtown landmark, built in 1907 in Sheridan, Wyoming, where "meet you at the Mint" is still a common expression

The well-worn bar inside the Mint Bar, a downtown landmark, built in 1...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Rodeo action at the Cheyenne Frontier Days, a western celebration and rodeo held annually, over several days, in the Wyoming capital since 1897

Rodeo action at the Cheyenne Frontier Days, a western celebration and ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Esterbrook Community Church, built in 1946 in tiny Esterbrook, Wyoming

Esterbrook Community Church, built in 1946 in tiny Esterbrook, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded in 1896 as a mining city, the isolated community is named after Esterbrook Creek, which was named after Esther Cooper, a local... More

Devils Tower, also known by more benign names, including Bear Lodge, by indigenous American Indians, in northeastern Wyoming

Devils Tower, also known by more benign names, including Bear Lodge, b...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. America's first declared national monument (in 1906), the formation is an "igneous intrusion," formed when molten lava deep beneath th... More

The 1905 Carnegie Library building, which served as the Albany County Library until 1981. It is now (as of 2015) called the Carnegie Building and used for city offices in Laramie, Wyoming

The 1905 Carnegie Library building, which served as the Albany County ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ewing T. Kerr Federal Building, Casper, Wyoming

Ewing T. Kerr Federal Building, Casper, Wyoming

Courthouse built by James A. Wetmore during the years 1930-1932. Neo-classical Revival style. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date, and subject note provide... More

Scene from the parade in downtown Cheyenne, Wyoming, that's part of the Cheyenne Frontier Days western celebration and rodeos, held annually in the Wyoming capital since 1897

Scene from the parade in downtown Cheyenne, Wyoming, that's part of th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Joseph C. O'Mahoney Federal Center, Cheyenne, Wyoming

Joseph C. O'Mahoney Federal Center, Cheyenne, Wyoming

Built in 1964, it is the largest GSA-owned property in the state. It is named after U.S. Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney (1884-1962). Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administ... More

Scene from Old Trail Town, a historic museum complex in Cody, Wyoming

Scene from Old Trail Town, a historic museum complex in Cody, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On this site in 1895, Western scout and showman William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody laid out the original townsite of Cody, Wyoming, which ... More

Colorfully trimmed downtown building in Evanston, a Uinta County city in the very southwest corner of Wyoming. Erected as the Evanston National Bank Building in 1907, the structure has had many uses over the years

Colorfully trimmed downtown building in Evanston, a Uinta County city ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

High-country lake in scenic and remote Sheridan County in north-central Wyoming

High-country lake in scenic and remote Sheridan County in north-centra...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Distant view of the spectacular Teton Mountains from the vast meadow below in Grand Teton National Park, below Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming

Distant view of the spectacular Teton Mountains from the vast meadow b...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The park is named for Grand Teton, the tallest mountain in the Teton Range of the Northern Rocky Mountains. The naming, attributed to ... More

A lone bison crosses the Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park in the northwest corner of the western state of Wyoming

A lone bison crosses the Firehole River in Yellowstone National Park i...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

The American flag-bearer at a large outdoor rodeo that's a feature of the annual (in this case 75th anniversary) Jubilee Days festival in Laramie, Wyoming

The American flag-bearer at a large outdoor rodeo that's a feature of ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Suspicious trophy head at the White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, Wyoming. Why suspicious? It is a stuffed jackalope, a supposedly apocryphal cross between a jackrabbit and an antelope

Suspicious trophy head at the White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, Wyoming. W...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Bucking broncos do what comes naturally at a large outdoor rodeo that's a feature of the annual (in this case 75th anniversary) Jubilee festival in Laramie, Wyoming

Bucking broncos do what comes naturally at a large outdoor rodeo that'...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Fall scene in remote Sheridan County in north-central Wyoming

Fall scene in remote Sheridan County in north-central Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A great horned owl has asserted permanent visiting rights to a tree above the ranch headquarters at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a huge spread just above the Colorado line near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

A great horned owl has asserted permanent visiting rights to a tree ab...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Cellblock at the old Wyoming Territorial Prison, now a museum, in Laramie

Cellblock at the old Wyoming Territorial Prison, now a museum, in Lara...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A remote and imaginative art installation in the unincorporated settlement of Granite Canon, 2015 population 2, in Laramie County, Wyoming. "Not a store, but you're welcome to look," proclaims a sign nearby

A remote and imaginative art installation in the unincorporated settle...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Remnants of a previous forest fire in Yellowstone National Park, in the northwest corner of the western state of Wyoming

Remnants of a previous forest fire in Yellowstone National Park, in th...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A curious old building that straddles the Nebraska-Wyoming border in Pine Bluffs, a small farming community that's 90 percent in Laramie County, Wyoming

A curious old building that straddles the Nebraska-Wyoming border in P...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Newer street lights on the site hint that it might have been a combination gas station and sandwich-and-curio shop, or perhaps some so... More

Long-closed rock shop in little Shell, Wyoming. Places like it, snake farms, and such were popular tourist destinations in the early days along America's two-lane, cross-country roads

Long-closed rock shop in little Shell, Wyoming. Places like it, snake ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Peek inside an old, now roofless, cabin at the Big Creek cattle ranch, a large spread on the Colorado border near Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming

Peek inside an old, now roofless, cabin at the Big Creek cattle ranch,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Street scene showing vintage cabins moved to this location at the Old Trail Town living-history museum in Cody, Wyoming

Street scene showing vintage cabins moved to this location at the Old ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Larger-than-life Old West characters at the distinctive White Wolf Saloon in Douglas, site of the annual Wyoming State Fair

Larger-than-life Old West characters at the distinctive White Wolf Sal...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The bar's owners, Diane and Carl Strode, who had lived in distant Miami, Florida, bought the closed establishment, bereft of fixtures ... More

Deer in the tall grass below Devil's Tower National Monument in Crook County, Wyoming

Deer in the tall grass below Devil's Tower National Monument in Crook ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A cowpoke feels the full effect of a bucking bronco, straight out of the gate at a large outdoor rodeo that's a feature of the annual (in this case 75th anniversary) Jubilee Days festival in Laramie, Wyoming

A cowpoke feels the full effect of a bucking bronco, straight out of t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Buildings on Capitol Avenue in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne

Buildings on Capitol Avenue in Wyoming's capital, Cheyenne

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Mike Buchanan, at work rounding up calves for branding, just below the Wyoming border in Moffat County, Colorado. The Ladder Ranch operation, including extensive sheep grazing in Wyoming, spills across the border between the two states. The ranch headquarters is barely into Wyoming, down the road from the little town of Savery, and it overlooks pastures full of its cattle, in Colorado, near Squaw Mountain

Ladder Livestock Ranch cowhand Mike Buchanan, at work rounding up calv...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Young bull elk test each other's mettle at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's elk refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, a valley on the edge of Grand Teton National Park

Young bull elk test each other's mettle at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Se...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The refuge was established to provide winter habitat for the Jackson Elk Herd. Elk leave the lower elevations in April and May, follow... More

A ewe and her newborn lambs at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepherding operation during lambing season near Dixon, Wyoming. Ladder sheephands also spend much of the year tending to the flock much higher in the Wyoming mountains. And the ranch, which is based on the Wyoming side of the Colorado border, runs a separate cattle operation literally just across the line in Colorado

A ewe and her newborn lambs at the Ladder Livestock Ranch's sheepherdi...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Vintage truck outside the Black and Orange "Garage Camp," an authentic 1930s-vintage tourist court, refurbished in 2009, along the Lincoln Highway, old U.S. 30, in Fort Bridger; a tiny town that grew up around a historic fort, now a state historic site, of the same name in Uinta County, Wyoming. The cabins, with carports, were an extension of the Rocheford Hotel in an attempt to serve travelers who wanted less formal accommodations. The term "garage camp" refers to the motel units, each of which included its own one-car garage next to its sleeping quarters

Vintage truck outside the Black and Orange "Garage Camp," an authentic...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Corraled cattle at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch in Carbon County, Wyoming, close to the Colorado border

Corraled cattle at Big Creek Ranch, a vast cattle ranch in Carbon Coun...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

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