The West Images
The President and the Preservationist
Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir in Yosemite National Park, 1903.
Hetch Hetchy (Before)
The Hetch Hetchy Valley before the Tuolumne River was damned and the valley was turned into a reservoir for San Francisco.
Hetch Hetchy (After)
The Hetch Hetchy Valley after the Tuolumne River was damned and the valley was turned into a reservoir for San Francisco.
Cattle King
Cattle baron Henry Miller.
Prairie Grass Roots Politics
Farmers gather for a Populist Party Convention in Nebraska, 1890.
"The Chinese Must Go!"
Workingmen's Party Ticket, 1878.
Denis Kearney
Leader of San Francisco's Workingmen's Party.