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| Horse Shoe Curve with Buckhorn Mountains in background - 1891 |
The photographs were from the John C.H. Grabill collection,
starting in 1886 or 1887 for the next five or six years when John Grabill had
studios in Sturgis and then Deadwood and worked as the official photographer of
Homestake Gold Mine. John C.H. Grabill left the area and became a
famous photographer in Chicago.
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| Sioux City party on Tally Ho Coach near Hot Springs - 1889 |
The photos were obtained the from the Library of Congress free gallery website http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/grabill/ and combed through hundreds of photographs, selecting, inspecting details, and organizing them for our viewing and understanding.
Starting with photos of the early towns of Terraville (now a ghost town), Central City, Deadwood, and Lead City, Larry Miller then moved on to photos of Chinese citizens of Deadwood and then to the area stagecoaches.
Larry showed photos of Native Americans at the time of the Wounded Knee massacre. One was of the
horse "Comanche" about that time; this horse survived the Battle of the Little Bighorn. We viewed photos of Native American gatherings such as the Great Grass Dance of 1890 at Pine Ridge. Larry then moved on to photos of the early gold mines
and stamp mills.
The program ended with many early photos of some of the unique (but off the road) landscape features in the area, such as Devil's Tower, the "old man of the park" near Sundance, Phantom Ridge, and Echo Canyon near Hot Springs.
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| What's left of Big Foot band after Wounded Knee - 1891 |
The photos were obtained the from the Library of Congress free gallery website http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/grabill/ and combed through hundreds of photographs, selecting, inspecting details, and organizing them for our viewing and understanding.
Starting with photos of the early towns of Terraville (now a ghost town), Central City, Deadwood, and Lead City, Larry Miller then moved on to photos of Chinese citizens of Deadwood and then to the area stagecoaches.
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| Devil's Tower from the east - 1888 |
The program ended with many early photos of some of the unique (but off the road) landscape features in the area, such as Devil's Tower, the "old man of the park" near Sundance, Phantom Ridge, and Echo Canyon near Hot Springs.
