Great Photos of the Early West
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Smokecreek1
Smokecreek1
Great stuff Ski! Can't never get enough of these old photos'!
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Dughlas Stiubhart
It's good to be Stew
Yep, great old photos from the Real West!
Edgewood
Senior Member
WOW, thank you for posting these ski3pin. WOW!
mitch h
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Really great photos. Thanks
Thanks for the link, ski.
Very interesting to see how stuff looked... before.
Very interesting to see how stuff looked... before.
highz
Retreaded
WOW, thank you for posting these ski3pin. WOW!
Ditto!
Ditto!
Dughlas Stiubhart
It's good to be Stew
Fremont at the Pyramid (1840s):
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O'Sullivan at the Pyramid (1860s) :
Stew at the Pyramid 2007):
Note: The ATC is parked below the waterline shown the 19th Century photo since much of the Truckee River's flow has been diverted for desert farming by the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902. The white bathtub ring above lake level shows the old waterline.
(click to enlarge)
O'Sullivan at the Pyramid (1860s) :
Stew at the Pyramid 2007):
Note: The ATC is parked below the waterline shown the 19th Century photo since much of the Truckee River's flow has been diverted for desert farming by the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902. The white bathtub ring above lake level shows the old waterline.
Fremont at the Pyramid (1840s):
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(click to enlarge)
O'Sullivan at the Pyramid (1860s) :
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Stew at the Pyramid 2007):
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Note: The ATC is parked below the waterline shown the 19th Century photo since much of the Truckee River's flow has been diverted for desert farming by the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902. The white bathtub ring above lake level shows the old waterline.
I love those comparisons.
View attachment 16057
(click to enlarge)
O'Sullivan at the Pyramid (1860s) :
View attachment 16058
Stew at the Pyramid 2007):
View attachment 16059
Note: The ATC is parked below the waterline shown the 19th Century photo since much of the Truckee River's flow has been diverted for desert farming by the Newlands Reclamation Act of 1902. The white bathtub ring above lake level shows the old waterline.
I love those comparisons.
OP
OP
I love those comparisons.
Yes! Thanks Stew. It still hurts to remember that Derby Dam decimated the Pyramid Lake strain of Lahontan Cutthroat Trout by eliminating the access to their spawning grounds.
Yes! Thanks Stew. It still hurts to remember that Derby Dam decimated the Pyramid Lake strain of Lahontan Cutthroat Trout by eliminating the access to their spawning grounds.
takesiteasy
Senior Member
Enjoyed the photos and the comparisons to the present. Kind of the reverse of the usual shots showing the before and after of the flooding of canyons as a result of dams.
clikrf8
Senior Member
Here is a modern day photographer who compared older with present day photography Tom Till
As a photographer, I wish I could have been present 100 years ago and more to see the West before "civilization and progress". There is nowhere else in the world I would rather be for photography than the Colorado Plateau.
Thanks for sharing.
As a photographer, I wish I could have been present 100 years ago and more to see the West before "civilization and progress". There is nowhere else in the world I would rather be for photography than the Colorado Plateau.
Thanks for sharing.
Yes! Thanks Stew. It still hurts to remember that Derby Dam decimated the Pyramid Lake strain of Lahontan Cutthroat Trout by eliminating the access to their spawning grounds.
Yes Ski that was a shame,but I think that's where the Cal.DFG got the fish that are raised at Heenan and repopulated throughout the Sierras.At least that what I have been told by folks at Heenan.
Frank
Yes Ski that was a shame,but I think that's where the Cal.DFG got the fish that are raised at Heenan and repopulated throughout the Sierras.At least that what I have been told by folks at Heenan.
Frank
OP
OP
Yes Ski that was a shame,but I think that's where the Cal.DFG got the fish that are raised at Heenan and repopulated throughout the Sierras.At least that what I have been told by folks at Heenan.
Frank
Frank, from what I understand Lahontan Cutthroat from other sources were stocked into Pyramid after the Pyramid strain died off and was thought to be extinct. A possible population (planted in the early days from Pyramid) of pure Pyramid strain was later found in Donner Creek.
Story here
Since that time I've heard they are adding original strain to Pyramid to hybridize with the current population and work back to huge trout.
Frank
Frank, from what I understand Lahontan Cutthroat from other sources were stocked into Pyramid after the Pyramid strain died off and was thought to be extinct. A possible population (planted in the early days from Pyramid) of pure Pyramid strain was later found in Donner Creek.
Story here
Since that time I've heard they are adding original strain to Pyramid to hybridize with the current population and work back to huge trout.
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