There Goes the Neighborhood

[adorshki]

Indigenous American contemplating the Transcontinental Railroad shortly after completion in 1868:

 

[schoolie]

Man we really did destroy it, coast to coast.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Man we really did destroy it, coast to coast.

Yep. We with a capital We.

Hey, Adorshki, where's the picture from?

 

[adorshki]

Yep. We with a capital We.

Hey, Adorshki, where's the picture from?

Google Quora, my other favorite hangout. No location cited, if that's what you meant. Google Image search might reveal it, but suspect it's somewhere in the CA Sierra Nevadas going by Indian's clothing and don't think it's the Rockies. Maybe Utah?

 

[5thumbs]

There's a song in that picture...

 

[fronobulax]

Yep. We with a capital We.

Hey, Adorshki, where's the picture from?

TinEye did not come up with a use that had a caption or any identifying material.

 

[gjmalcyon]

Info from Stanford:

Indian Viewing R R From Top Of Palisades 435 Miles From Sacramento. # 340, Photograph

exhibits.stanford.edu

and the Library of Congress:

Indian viewing railroad from top of Palisades. 435 miles from Sacramento

1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen.

www.loc.gov

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

There's a song in that picture...

Yup! It starts where "Geronimo's Cadillac" left off.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Google Quora, my other favorite hangout. No location cited, if that's what you meant. Google Image search might reveal it, but suspect it's somewhere in the CA Sierra Nevadas going by Indian's clothing and don't think it's the Rockies. Maybe Utah?

Sorry. I wasn't clear. I meant the picture itself. Who owns it? Is it from someone's archive? A photo dealer? The Library of Congress?

For example, the album I just made has three pictures from a museum in Kansas, and they gave me permission to use them.

I'll try Quora. Thanks!

 

[fronobulax]

Sorry. I wasn't clear. I meant the picture itself. Who owns it? Is it from someone's archive? A photo dealer? The Library of Congress?

For example, the album I just made has three pictures from a museum in Kansas, and they gave me permission to use them.

I'll try Quora. Thanks!

You did see

Info from Stanford:

Indian Viewing R R From Top Of Palisades 435 Miles From Sacramento. # 340, Photograph

exhibits.stanford.edu

and the Library of Congress:

Indian viewing railroad from top of Palisades. 435 miles from Sacramento

1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen.

www.loc.gov

which gives two sources.

 

[silverfox103]

Indigenous American contemplating the Transcontinental Railroad shortly after completion in 1868:

Probably a real sad day for that guy. He knows what he is looking at, he's trying to grasp it. He knows it's not good, knows his way of life will never be the same.

Tom

 

[Westerly Wood]

Probably a real sad day for that guy. He knows what he is looking at, he's trying to grasp it. He knows it's not good, knows his way of life will never be the same.

Tom

Like the stars:

 

[FNG]

Like the stars:

I don't think the Spaniards, Mexicans or the Texans made it all the way up to Lakota Sioux territory. If these were Comanches it would be a little more historically accurate.

 

[FNG]

Empire of the Summer Moon

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and th...

www.simonandschuster.com

Comanches by T.R. Fehrenbach: 9781400030491 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches’ rise to power, from their prehistoric origins...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

Couple great books for those so inclined....

 

[davidbeinct]

Empire of the Summer Moon

*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award* *A New York Times Notable Book* *Winner of the Texas Book Award and th...

www.simonandschuster.com

Comanches by T.R. Fehrenbach: 9781400030491 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T.R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches’ rise to power, from their prehistoric origins...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

Couple great books for those so inclined....

Empire of the Summer Moon was great. It was interesting to see the early Army personnel forgetting the lessons of guerilla war that their predecessors learned in the American Revolution. I’ll have to look for the other book.

 

[adorshki]

Empire of the Summer Moon was great. It was interesting to see the early Army personnel forgetting the lessons of guerilla war that their predecessors learned in the American Revolution. I’ll have to look for the other book.

 

[Roland]

I guess that eventually we all have to come to the realization that we are getting left behind. I mean, what was the alternative?

 

[adorshki]

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

You did see



which gives two sources.

Yep. Thanks!