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767 Westward Expansion Images and Stock Photos

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American progress. 'Manifest Destiny'. Allegorical female figure of America leading pioneers and railroads westward. C.1850.

'Manifest Destiny'

Woman in a white robe is the symbol of 'Manifest Destiny'. She floats over the prairie holding a school book and a coil of telegraph wire, which she...

American Progress Color Lithograph by George A. Crofutt and John Gast

'The Oregon Trail Beyond Devil's Gate', Wyoming - by W H Jackson.

The Oregon Trail

The Texan defenders of the Alamo fighting Mexican soldiers within the walls of the fortress. Davy Crockett , centre right, with his rifle above his...

Gallant Defence

lewis & clark expedition map - westward expansion stock illustrations

Lewis & Clark Expedition Map

View of a covered wagon going westward. Undated photograph.

Covered Wagons on the Plains Going West

An emigrant wagon train crossing the plains on a journey from Kentucky to California during the westward expansion of the United States, circa 1850....

March Of Destiny

Illustration titled 'The March of the Caravan,' depicting a wagon train passing over the prairie, taken from 'Commerce of the Prairies' by Josiah...

The March Of The Caravan

Band of white settlers arrive at a Native American encampment in a valley for a council meeting. Original Artist: By W H Jackson.

Valley Encampment

'Mormon Party near Fort Bridger' - by W H Jackson.

Near Fort Bridger

1800s AMERICAN WESTERN FRONTIER WITH WAGON TRAIN GOING WESTWARD ONTO THE GREAT PLAINS

1800s AMERICAN WESTERN...

Painting entitled 'American Progress', by John Gast, depicting 'Manifest Destiny' . In 1872 artist John Gast painted a popular scene of people moving...

American Progress

Illustration depicting the blizzard on the Northern Plains in 1877, showing a number of wagons and dead cattle in the snow. USA, circa 1877. .

Northern Plains Blizzard

Painting by William Henry Jackson, titled 'Independence Rock on the Mormon Trail' depicting numerous wagons in a field with Independence Rock in the...

Independence Rock

Ten seconds after the gun, the race into the Cherokee Outlet. The image shows scores of men on horseback dashing across a field in Oklahoma, USA, 16...

Cherokee Outlet Race

Illustration titled 'The Rocky Mountains. Emigrants Crossing The Plains,' depicting a wagon train passing through the mountains. USA, date unknown. .

The Rocky Mountains

Railroad Through to the Pacific, pub. 1870, Currier & Ives .

Railroad Through To The Pacific

Colorized lithograph depicts a wagon train of pioneers and their animals as they cross the plains of North America, 1869.

'Emigrants Crossing The Plains'

19TH CENTURY AMERICAN WEST TWO MEN DRIVING STAGECOACH DRAWN BY TEAM OF SIX HORSES ARRIVING IN FRONTIER TOWN

19TH CENTURY AMERICAN WEST...

Painting, Manifest Destiny. Shows a female figure, Potentially an angel, leading the pioneers westward. They travel by foot, stagecoaches and...

Manifest Destiny.

Daniel Boone leading a group of settlers. He played a major part in the exploration and settlement of Kentucky. He established a route through the...

Native Americans and settlers meet at a trading encampment near the Platte River. Original Artist: By W. H. Jackson.

Line of gold miners climbing a mountain using a rope during the Klondike gold rush. One of the men is carrying a canoe on his back.

The Gold Hill mining camp in California.

Wagon train bearing goods to the new settlements makes its way westwards, before the implementation of railroads. A woman walks alongside the oxen,...

Family pose with their wagon in Loup Valley, Nebraska, on their way to their new homestead. The Homestead Act of 1862 allowed any citizen over the...

'Pilgrims On The Plains', a lithograph by Theo R. Davis 1869, showing a wagon train encampment, with the wagons in a circle, during the westward...

Pilgrims On The Plains

Painting entitled 'American Progress', by John Gast, depicting 'Manifest Destiny' . In 1872 artist John Gast painted a popular scene of people moving...

American Progress

Stereopticon image of a family outside their habitat on their ranch, Western US, late 19th Century.

Old West Homestead Portrait

Map of the country of the Five Nations or Iroquois, now belonging to the province of New York, as well as part of Canada and Lakes Huron, Michigan,...

Rider on horseback blows a bugle to rouse a group of pioneers camping on the Oregon Trail, 1856.

Camping On The Oregon Trail

Settlers aiming rifles at Native Americans who are attacking dummies they have left at their frontier camp.

Mormons arriving in Salt Lake Valley, Utah. Original Artwork: 'Salt Lake Valley' - by W H Jackson.

The Promised Land

After the last spike of the transcontinental Railroad is driven at Promontory, Utah, the locomotives of the Canadian Pacific and the Union Pacific...

American explorer John C Fremont planting the American flag on the Rocky Mountains. In 1856 Fremont was the first Presidential nominee of the newly...

On Rocky Ground

Captain Clark and his men shooting bears. Original Artwork: From 'Journal of Voyages' by Peter Gass - pub 1811

French missionary and explorer Jacques Marquette holds up a pipe as his symbol of peace, towards Native Americans standing on the banks of the...

Marquette And His Symbol Of Peace

Ghost Town, Cody, Wyoming

Ghost Town, Cody, Wyoming

The newly-completed Fred Harvey Restaurant gives diners a westward view of the Illinois toll road, May 18 May 18, 1959.

Fred Harvey Restaurant Over The Illinois Tollway

1870s EARLY RAILROAD COMMERCE TRAVEL UNION PACIFIC TRAIN AT STATION IN WESTERN KANSAS USA

1870s EARLY RAILROAD...

Wagon train, drawn by oxen, travelling across the plains during the westward expansion of the United States, circa 1850. Engraving by F.O.C. Darley.

Engraving depicting 'the arrival of a caravan at Santa Fe,' taken from 'Commerce of the Prairies' by Josiah Gregg. New Mexico, USA, circa 1844. .

Commerce Of The Prairies

Wagon train arriving at an unspecified Western settlement. USA, date unknown. .

Western Settlement

Tall Columns March to Mountains Columns 20 feet tall march westward from Harrison St. Along E. 46th Ave. It looks like a mere hop, skip and jump to...

Denver Post Archives

Interstate 70 heads westward across the plains, right photo, from Wadsworth Blvd., just out of photo at Bottom, to Kipling St., third bridge west,...

Denver Post Archives

"ghost town, cody, wyoming" - westward expansion stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

"Ghost Town, Cody, Wyoming"

Family of pioneer settlers pose next to their covered wagon, 1886.

Family poses outside their house on their homestead, Western US, late 19th Century.

Old West Homestead Portrait

19TH CENTURY AMERICAN WEST PAIR OF MEN DRIVING STAGECOACH DRAWN BY TEAM OF SIX HORSES THROUGH RUGGED LANDSCAPE

19TH CENTURY AMERICAN WEST...

Circa 1880 pamphlet encouraging westward immigration to Kansas includes a map of the state.

The Immigrants' Guide to The Most Fertile Lands of Kansas Pamphlet

Westward expansion: Laying tracks in Arizona Territory, ca. 1898, for Prescott and Eastern Railroad.

Workers Laying Railroad Tracks

French-Canadian fur traders travelling in birchbark canoes explore the rivers of North America.

Hungarian policewoman carries a young Syrian boy to his mother after police allowed women with children to separate themselves from a crowd...

Migrants Continue To Arrive In Hungary

Syrian migrants ask aid workers and Hungarian police about departing westward bound trains from the Keleti railway station on September 9, 2015 in...

Migrants Continue To Arrive In Hungary

Hungarian policeman helps a Syrian woman and her child over and through a crowd attempting to board westward bound trains from the Keleti railway...

Migrants Continue To Arrive In Hungary

Camp of Pawnee Indians on the Platte Valley - they made a 'raid' on guests of the UPRR and stayed for a meal, by pre-arrangement, October 1866.

Camp Of Pawnee Indians On The Platte Valley

View of buildings, in a small frontier town on the Plains, during America's westward expansion era, nineteenth century.

Unidentified Western Frontier Town

Brigadier General Thomas Ewing of the Union Army evicts Missouri settlers from counties along the Kansas border. Original Artwork: Engraving by...

Stagecoach guarded by African American soldiers, who were known as Buffalo Soldiers.

Meeting of the Workingmen's Party on the sandlot opposite San Francisco city hall. The party was formed during a recession and gave expression to the...

Sandlot Meeting

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