A distant view of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1873. Santa Fe is one of the oldest continually inhabited places in North America. Thought to have been settled by native American’s in around 1050 AD
By Rob Cooper
From the Daily Mail
These remarkable 19th century sepia-tinted pictures show the American West as you have never seen it before – as it was charted for the first time.
The photos, by Timothy O’Sullivan, are the first ever taken of the rocky and barren landscape.
At the time federal government officials were traveling across Arizona, Nevada, Utah and the rest of the west as they sought to uncover the land’s untapped natural resources.
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