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 Joining the tracks for the first transcontinental railroad, Promontory, Utah, Terr., 1869. [230kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "A Montana ranch, comfortable if not elegant, and the home of many well-to-do persons engaged in mining or stock-raising." By Jackson, 1872. [307kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Lamon's log cabin, the first built in Yosemite Valley, Calif." Their work completed, two men sit on stumps in front of the finished product, ca. 1895. [393kb Image from US National Archives]
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 A family group poses with dog, Indian domestic, and young children outside a log cabin in New Mexico Territory, ca. 1895. [262kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Residence of G. L. Rule Feb. 18, 1898. Have lived here since Sept. 1893." Family stands in foreground; sod building and cabin in background, Arizona Territory. [250kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Turning over first sod on homestead." Sun River Mont. By Lubkin, November 5, 1908. [236kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Hancock homestead. Settler from Benson, Minn." Little girl feeding chickens against background of house, buckboard wagon, and ridge of plateau, Sun River, Mont. By Lubkin, June 23, 1910. [197kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Looking For A Town Lot." Guthrie, Ind. Terr. [Oklahoma], ca. 1889. [268kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Holding Down A Lot In Guthrie." By C. P. Rich, ca. 1889. [256kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "The Covered Wagon of the Great Western Migration. 1886 in Loup Valley, Nebr." A family poses with the wagon in which they live and travel daily during their pursuit of a homestead. [320kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "First Blacksmith Shop in Guthrie." ca. 1889. [290kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Boomers Camp. Arkansas Cty., Kan. Waiting For the Strip To Open Mar. 1st, 1893." [278kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "The Nine Booths at Orlando [OkIa. Terr.] Sept. 15th, (18)'93, Where 36,000 Registered." [216kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "First train [and wagons] leaving the line north of Orlando For Perry [OkIa. Terr.], Sept. 16, 1893." [279kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "In Line At The land Office, Perry, Sept. 23, 1893. 9 o'clock A.M. waiting to file." [300kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Hells Half--Acre, Perry, 0.(kla). T(err)., 93." [219kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Wild West Hotel, Calamity Av., Perry, 0. T., Sept. 93." [240kb Image from US National Archives]
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 W. H. McCoy's claim, Perry, Okla. Terr., October 1, 1893. [223kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Clerical force & U.S. Deputy Marshalls, U.S. Land Office, Perry, OkIa. Ter. Oct. 12, 1893." [276kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Anadarko Townsite [OkIa. Terr.] Aug. 6, [1901]--a cornfield." [204kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Anadarko Townsite, Okla. Terr., August 8, 1901. Tent city in the cornfield. [194kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Tent town in a mountain valley in Idaho. By Burt L. Wheeler November 1909. [297kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Bankers' and Railroad Men's Party on Blue Grass Lawn at Calexico." The California Development Co. was in hopes that after this campout the men would invest in Imperial Valley schemes, ca. 1904 [234kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "First Auction Sale of Lots at Imperial April 12, 1904." Inside the tent with the California Development Co. and hopeful landowners. [185kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Gayville in Deadwood Gulch, Black Hills [Dak. Terr.], 1876." Log cabins under construction at the foot of a hillside. [381kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Anadarko Townsite, August 8, 1901. Auction in progress in lumber company booth. Temporary bank buildings and the beginnings of a lodging house nearby. [240kb Image from US National Archives]
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