Stoddard's OLD AMERICAN WEST is a first edition hardcover book published in 1903 by Balch Brothers Co in Boston. Written by John L. Stoddard, this book contains hundreds of 1800's great photos of yesteryear, focusing on exploration and travel in the United States, particularly in California. The book is illustrated with a special attribute, making it a valuable collectible for those interested in American history and vintage photography.
CALIFORNIA
Electric PeakPachango Indians at HomeLife on the DesertThe Desert's MountainsDesert VegetationLooking back at the MountainsA California Ranch Scene Indian HutsA Fallen Race
A Mexican House and FamilyThe Blossoming Wilderness Complacent Mongols Characteristic Scenery Striking Contrasts Wrested from the Sand A Palm Girt Avenue, Los Angles An Arbor in Winter Main Street, Los Angles Fremont's Headquarters Palatial Residences in Los Angles Los Angles Plaza and Abode Church, Los Angles Broadway, Los Angeles
An Ostrich Farm Orange Grove Avenue, Pasadena Three Miles from Oranges to Snow A Pasadena HotelA Pasadena Residence Pasadena A Raisin Ranch An Orange Grove, Pasadena A California Vineyard At the base of the Mountains Looking down on the San Gabriel Valley The Alpine Tavern The Great Incline The Circular BridgeImitating a Bird Swinging Round a Curve The Innocent Trolley Midwinter in California A Californian Burro Romeo and JulietSan Gabriel Valley Gathering Poppies at the Base of the Sierra Madre An Adobe House A Pasadena Lemon Tree A House Modeled After the Old Mexican Fashion The Ideal Home Magnolia Avenue, Riverside A Magnolia Blossom Part of the Converted Mountain Redlands A Driveway in Redlands The Sierra Madre and the San Gabriel Valley
A Few Unconverted Mountains Near Redlands Grounds of the Smiley Brothers on the Converted Mountains Irrigating Ditches San Diego Point Loma Hotel Coronado Courtyard of the Hotel View from the Table Land Pachango Indians at Home A Christianized Indian The Mission Bells An Aged Squaw Relics of an Ancient Race Ecstatic Bathers Mid Winter in Los Angles Pier at Santa Monica Avalon, Santa Catalina Island Not Afraid of the Sun In Cottonwood Canon, Santa Catalina Lilliputian and Giant On the Beach at Santa Catalina An Old Californian Trading Post A Bit of Nature on the Coast Californian Palms Hermit Valley near San Diego The Pacific A Sea Bird Fashioned by Man's Hand A Lonely Ocean Ramona's Home The Chapel, Ramona's Home Palms near San Fernando MissionCorridor, San Fernando Mission Santa Barbara
San Juan Capistrano Group of Franciscan Friars Chief of a Tribe of Mission Indians Indian Women San Diego Mission San Gabriel Mission Church Discarded Saints, San Gabriel Mutilated Statues The Baptismal Font San Gabriel, from the Southeast A Degenerate The Cross on the Hill Santa Barbara Mission Santa Barbara Mission, from the Farm Where the Fathers Walk The Cemetery, Santa BarbaraDreaming of Other Days
THE GRAND CANYON and ARIZONA
The San Francisco Volcanoes A Petrified Forest, Arizona Pack Mules of the Desert Evidences of Erosion The Navajo ChurchFantastic Forms A Specimen of Nature's Handiwork A Mesa A Group of Mesas On the Old Santa Fe Trail An Arizona Cloud Effect Old Home of Kit Carson, Taos, New Mexico Grave of Kit Carson, Taos, New MexicoThe Bridge of Canyon Diablo Homes of Cliff Dwellers
Skulls of Cliff Dwellers Laguna Cliff Palaces A Two Story Cliff Palace An Early Place of Shelter Crevices of Canyon Walls The Summit of a Mesa The Mesa Encantada Houses at Luguna The Mesa from the East Looking Through a Crevice of the Enchanted Mesa The Lyle Guns and Ropes Man in Boatswain's Chair The Hodge Party Indian Relics The Top of the Mesa Encantada The Approach to Acoma Rain Water Basin, Acoma The Courtyard of Acoma House of a Pueblo Chief A Group of Pueblo Indians A Group of Pueblo Indians A Group of Pueblo Indians A Group of Pueblo Indians A Pueblo Town Characteristic Pueblo Houses In the Pueblo Interior of a Pueblo Apartment Pueblo Water Carriers An Estufa Estufa and Surroundings Mexican Ovens The Old Church at Acoma The AltarDance in the Pueblo Pueblo GirlsThree Snake Priests The Snake Dance After the EmeticChief Snake Prince Where the Snakes are Kept Relics of Cliff Dwellers ummit of a Moqui Mesa Moqui Cart and Plow Moqui Children Flagstaff Station Packing WoodA Mexican HomeOur Railroad Car at Flagstaff The Heavens from the Observatory, Flagstaff Twilight The San Francisco Volcanoes Night Starting for the Grand Canyon The Coach Drive Through the Pines The San Francisco Mountain The Lunch Station Our Tent at Hance's Camp Old Hance The First View The Earth Gulf of Arizona A Portion of the Gulf A Vast Incomparable Void A Section of the Labyrinth Mount Ayer
Some of the Canyon Temples Siva's Temple Near the Temple of Set Hance's Trail Looking Up Mist in the Canyon A Stupendous Panorama A Tangled Skein of Canyons On the Brink Ripley's Butte A Bit of the RiverOn Hance's Trail Section of the Colorado River in the Canyon A Vision of Sublimity Starting Down the Trail A Yawning Chasm Obliged to Walk A Cabin on the Trail A halt At the Bottom Taking Lunch Near the River Beside the Colorado Monster Cliffs and a Notch in the Canyon Wall Miles of Inter Lacing Canyons
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
The Road Near the Golden GateLone Star GeyerThe Grotto, Geyser's ConeEntrance to the Park The Watchfull Sentinel Mammoth Springs Hotel Hall of the Mammoth Springs Hotel The Photographer's House Mammoth Hot Springs Fort Yellowstone A Forest in the Park Fire Hole River Mountain Sheep Yellowstone ElkBuffalos in the Snow Gathering Buffalo Bones A Yellowstone Road Liberty Cap A Mound of Hot Spring Terraces Minerva TerraceJupiter Terrace Vitality and Death Sepulchres of Vanished Splendor Man and Nature The Pulpit Terrace A Camping Party A Coaching PartyHotel at Yellowstone LodgeThe Golden Gate The Golden Gate, Looking Outward The PlateauElectric Peak The Glass Mountain An Indian Chief A Trapper The Norris Basin A Place of Danger A Camping Station A Baby GeyserThe Black Growler Larry Larry's Lunch Station The Biscuit Basin A Geyser PoolA Cloud Burst of Jewels The Oblong Geyser The Giant GeyserThe Castle Geyser On Its Flinty SidesThe Castle Geyser's Cone The Castle and the Beehive in Action The Craters of the Old Faithful Castle and Old Faithful GeysersOld Faithful in Action Hell's Half Acre The Excelsior, in 1888 Evening in the Upper BasinThe Morning Glory Pool Prismatic Lake The Road Near the Golden Gate The Emerald Pool Sunlight LakeThe Devils Punch Bowl The Mammoth Paint Pot The Road by Gibbon RiverGrotesque Images in Clay On the Continental Divide The Silver Thread Connecting Two Oceans The Three Tetons Lake Yellowstone, from a DistanceRustic Falls, Yellowstone Park The Solitary SteamboatOn Lake YellowstoneThe Sleeping Giant Along the Shore Great Fishing Larry, as Fisherman and Cook A False Alarm Hayden Valley Approaching the Mud GeyserA Stranger in the Yellowstone A Natural Bridge A Petrified Forest The park in WinterThe Expedition of 1887 F. J. Haynes The Canyon from a Distance Yellowstone River Above the Falls The Great Falls of the Yellowstone Upper Falls of the Yellowstone The Canyon from Brink of FallsThe Canyon from Grand Point Down the Canyon from Inspiration PointBelow the Upper Falls Miles of Colored Cliffs Temples Sculptured by the Deity The Canyon from Artist Point