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 Timothy O'Sullivan's ambulance wagon and portable darkroom used during the King Survey rolls across the sand dunes of Carson Desert, Nev. By O'Sullivan, 1867. [130kb Image from US National Archives]
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 An overland caravan laden with boats. Robert B. Stanton's Denver, Colorado Canyon, and Pacific Railway Survey, 1889-90. [268kb Image from US National Archives]
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 The U.S. Geological and Geophysical Survey of the Territories, conducted by Hayden, en route with pack train upon the trail between the Yellowstone and East Fork Rivers "showing the manner in which all parties traverse these wilds." Wyo. Terr. By Jackson, 1871. [280kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Frank E. Webner, pony express rider~," ca. 1861. [171kb Image from US National Archives]
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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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 Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad on the 100th meridian approximately 250 miles west of Omaha, Nebr. Terr. The train in background awaits the party of Eastern capitalists, newspapermen, and other prominent figures invited by the railroad executives. By John Carbutt, October 1866. [254kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "The overland stage road between Ogden and Helena crossing the Beaver Head River at Point of Rocks ... by means of a plank bridge." By Jackson, 1871. [272kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Column of cavalry, artillery, and wagons, commanded by Gen. George A. Custer, crossing the plains of Dakota Territory. By W. H. Illingworth, 1874 Black Hills expedition. [275kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "End of the Track. Near Humboldt River Canyon, Nevada." Campsite and train of the Central Pacific Railroad at foot of mountains, 1868. By Alfred A. Hart. [251kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Cinching and loading pack mule with flour during starvation march of Gen. George Crook's expedition into the Black Hills. By S. J. Morrow, 1876. [244kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "The Rosebud, historic old Missouri River boat that went up the River from Bismark, N.D. to Coalbanks in Montana, head of navigation." ca. 1878. [172kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Mormon emigrants." Photograph of covered wagon caravan by C. W. Carter ca. 1879. [189kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Ox train used to transport supplies in Arizona Territory, 1883. [216kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Government pack mules and packers. [Photograph taken near Mexican border 1883." [183kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Co. B~ 10th Infantry~, crossing Gila River in buckboard wagons near San Carlos, Ariz. Terr., ca.1885. [177kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Typical stage of the Concord type used by express companies on the overland trails. Soldiers guard from atop, ca. 1869. [154kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Steamer Bessie on the Rio Grande River loading up at Fort Ringgold, Tex., en route to Brownsville, ca. 1890. [144kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Laying tracks on the extreme front of Prescott and Eastern Railroad in Arizona Territory, ca. 1898. [213kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Pieces all saved." Man with parts of his wagon and equipment on muddy floor of Canyon deChelly, Navajo Reservation, Ariz. Terr. By D. Griffiths, September 13--19, 1903. [178kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Construction workers on the military road, from Fort Washakie to Buffalo Fork near the Continental Divide, drive their wagonload of equipment up the summit of To-Gwo-Tee Pass, Wyo. Terr., 1898. [139kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Two common methods of hauling water in Old Mexico and southwestern United States ... Encinal, Tex., 1905." [216kb Image from US National Archives]
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 A rider fills his keg from a desert well 30 miles north of Palomas, Ariz. Terr. His horse refreshes himself nearby. By Stanton G. Smith, April 5, 1907. [175kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Steamer Expansion; makes weekly trips on the Yellowstone River between Mondak and Glendive, Montana." The riverboat also carried freight for the lower Yellowstone reclamation project. August 9, 1907. [164kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Discovery party and horses on hot, slick rocks west of Navajo Mountain on their way to Rainbow Bridge, Utah. By Neil M. Judd, August 13, 1909. [185kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Automobile helped through sandy wash onto mesa, 7 miles northwest of Yuma, Calif. by A. L. Westgard, November 20, 1911. [127kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Buckboard and coaches zigzagging down the "W" Pike's Peak carriage road, Colorado, 1911. [244kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Noon camp of a surveying outfit, southwest part of Jornada Range Reserve, New Mexico, October 17, 1912. [166kb Image from US National Archives]
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 An AAA Good Roads Official on his transcontinental auto trip passes the only road sign in evidence along the dusty, desolate road near Glendive, Mont. By A. L. Westgard, July 1912. [167kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Covered wagon with jackrabbit mules encounters an automobile on the trail near Big Springs, Nebr. By A. L. Westgard, 1912. [181kb 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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 Members of the Denver Motor Club and Chamber of Commerce test--driving the Denver to Salt Lake Exposition route near De Beque, Colo. By A. L. Westgard, October 1912. [207kb Image from US National Archives]
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 Townspeople of Ehrenburg, Ariz. Terr., greet a stranger in an automobile on his pioneer cross country tour. Saloon in background. By A. L. Westgard, ca. 1911. [212kb Image from US National Archives]
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 "Birds Eye View of Winslow, looking East." Atlantic and Pacific Railway cars on converging tracks in the foreground of the arid Arizona terrain, ca. 1890. [209kb 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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