A Rugged Symbol of the Making of the Country

My aunt, who recently moved here to St. Louis from Dallas, is working at a really awesome used book/media store called Half Price Books.  We went to visit the other day and I found two really cool old western photograph collection books.  Between the two, they have everything from covered wagons, to horse-drawn carriages, to indian teepees, to old maps, to railroads, to advertisements, to sheet music.

(photos collected from Photography and The Old West, and America: Pictured to the Life)