The Wild West in pictures by Timothy O'Sullivan

Since childhood, we have associated the Wild West with endless prairies, along which brave cowboys jump, shooting back from treacherous Indians, so that later in the saloon they can tell their friends about their adventures between a couple of glasses of whiskey.

There are no cowboys in Timothy O'Sullivan's pictures. There is only the mesmerizing beauty of Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Idaho.

Timothy O'Sullivan (1840-1882) began photographing as a teenager. After the Civil War, O'Sullivan took part in several expeditions to the Wild West, which were organized by the government. He, in fact, had to make advertising photographs: his pictures of the western lands were needed to attract new settlers there.

So the whole world saw the Wild West for the first time, and the works of Timothy O'Sullivan went down in the history of photography.

Shoshoni Falls on the Snake River, Idaho, 1874.

The shore of the Colorado River, Mojave County, Arizona, 1871.

The neighborhood of Cedar, Utah, 1872.

Near Green River, Wyoming, 1892.

Participants of the "Geological expedition along the 40th Parallel" under the leadership of Clarence King near Orena, Nevada, 1867.

A cluster of tuff rocks on Pyramid Lake in Nevada, 1867.

Canyon de Shay, Arizona, 1863.

An old church in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico. View from the square, 1873.

Members of Lieutenant Wheeler's expedition and American Indians, 1871.

Browns Park, Colorado, 1872.

The shore of the Colorado River in Iceberg Canyon on the border between the states of Arizona and Nevada, 1871.

Gold Hill mining town south of Virginia City, Nevada, 1867.

The top of the Canyon-de-Shay, whose depth is 366 meters, Arizona, 1873.

Lands north of the Colorado Plateau, 1872.

Paiute men, women and children pose for a photo under a tree in the vicinity of Cottonwood Springs, Washoe, Nevada, 1875.

The junction of Green Canyon and Yampa Canyon, Utah, 1872.

Everyday life of the Navajo Indians, New Mexico, 1873.

Lodor Canyon, Colorado, 1872.

Ruins of the" White House " of the Pueblo Indians in Canyon de Shay, Arizona, 1873.

Expedition on the Truckee River in western Nevada, 1867.

Pagosa Hot Spring, Colorado, 1874.

Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1873.

An Indian woman from the Mojave tribe, Colorado, 1871.

The city of Alta, Little Cottonwood, Utah, 1873.

Mount Mesa, Arizona, 1871.

Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, 1869.

Washaki Bedlands, Wyoming, 1872.

White Mountains, Arizona, 1873.

Shoshone Falls, Idaho, 1868.

The south side of the rock with petroglyphs (now the El Morro National Monument) in El Morro, New Mexico, 1873.