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View of a covered patio in Denver, Colorado. Coffered ceilings, wrought iron lamps, couches, chairs, potted plants, and a tile floor comprise the decor. An open plaza is to the side.

Interior view of the Henry Viley Johnson residence in Denver, Colorado; decor includes a velvet couch with pillows, a mantle with mirror, and vase of peacock feathers.

Interior view at the Claude K. Boettcher residence, in Denver, Colorado; living room decor includes curved couches, chairs, an ottoman, glass tables, Corinthian capitols, a crystal chandelier, palms, and curtains.

Luxury Interiors of the West

A prospector with a sledgehammer stands outside his chink and log cabin in Teller County, Colorado; shows a cast-iron stove outside the door of the cabin, a jug, broom, lunch pail, pans, cans, and a dog and her puppies under a table.

View of three of the twenty-eight domes in the ceiling of the Colorado Mineral Palace, Pueblo (Pueblo County), Colorado. Each dome is decorated with Colorado wildflowers.

A view a building with four porch entrances. The sandstone row house features towers, bays, porches, recessed porches, transom windows, arches, stone chimneys and a carriage portico.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ William Henry Jackson

View of a Native American (Ute) scouting party mounted on horseback as they cross the Los Pinos river, La Plata County, Colorado; three men have rifles, one a pistol; men wear moccasins, fringed leggings, blankets, shirts, and braided hair; some have feathers in their hair; all horses have bridles and saddles.

View, facing southeast, of ancient Native American (Anasazi) cliff dwellings before excavation on Chapin Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, Montezuma County, Colorado. The stone masonry and mud mortar Cliff Palace pueblo homes stand underneath a cliffside overhang. The cylindrical and square ruins have square and T-shaped door openings. Crumbled masonry litters the ground.

Native American (Cochiti) woman and a white boy stand in front of a pueblo wall and wire fence, Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. The woman carries a handcrafted pot on her head. She wears a print dress with a cloth belt and ruffled hem, and a shawl over her head. The boy wears a shirt and overalls.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Horace S. Poley

People crowd the 16th (Sixteenth) Street entrance of the Tabor Theater in Denver, Colorado. The marquee reads: "Joel McCrea and Wanda Hendrix on the Stage, World Premiere of Saddle Tramp."

A man and woman eat sandwiches in (probably) Denver, Colorado; a baby hangs in a canvas baby carrier (cradleboard) from a hook on the wall.

A teenage newspaper delivery boy, with a "Denver Post" newspaper bag, walks down stairs in Estes Park (Larimer County), Colorado; a Newfoundland dog is with him.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Lloyd Rule

Four Native American women, including Louise Kumkumpoo Qumqmtpu, Agate Ogden Finley, Mrs. Latati and Agnes Incashola, pose with two small children on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana. The women all wear their hair in braids. Their dresses are made from floral and checkered patterned materials. Each of them also wears several necklaces around her neck. Three of the women hold patterned, wool blankets. A long, wood building is in the left background.

Antoine Ninamee and Loma Charlemain, two Native American boys on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, sit near a creek. The young man in the foreground wears a loincloth and squats down next to the creek scooping water into his hands. The other young man sits in the left background near a pile of clothing. He wears his hair in braids. Numerous trees stand along the creek.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Edward H. Boos

View of Echo Lake near Mount Evans in Clear Creek County, Colorado; pine forest and narrow beaches surround the water. Cumulus clouds top snow dotted mountain peaks in the distance.

An unidentified woman sits on a large boulder near Long Lake west of Ward in Boulder County, Colorado. Additional smaller boulders are also in the foreground. Tall pine trees stand along the shore of the lake in the background. A ridge of mountains is in the distance.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ Donald Kemp

The Photo Collection Named After a Dog

A Native American man stands next to a tuff cliffside with eroded holes enlarged by ancestral Pueblo Indians for dwellings and ceremonial spaces, Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico; became Bandelier National Monument in 1916.

Windows and bird nest holes show in the soft volcanic rock of a verticle tuff cliffside with natural caves, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico.

View along a soft volcanic tuff cliffside with natural caves, enlarged to create living and ceremonial spaces by ancestral Pueblo Indians, Frijoles Canyon, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico.

Acclaimed Western Photographers ~ George Beam

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