Main Street, 1875 — Very Little Hustle, Very Little Bustle
by Paula Bosse
by Paula Bosse
Main Street, looking east from the old courthouse, at Houston Street. 1875. Wow.
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Stereograph from the George A. McAfee collection, DeGolyer Library, Central University Libraries, Southern Methodist University; more info on this image can be found here.
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Copyright © 2014 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Flashback : Dallas 
The great thing about this story and the work that went into it, it is all original and from a erea that now has some visual, well most of it was real back then and so is this, any way, it is a great word of truth and history of the real Wil West in the 19th Century…great story….
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You can see that view on the Brosius map of 1872.
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These are some of the early photographs by such artist a Gallagher and i have forgotten the 1870’s artist who shot this view…..now where is the court house and note the rails that is a road of dusty trails when it was the old west….
Dallas was the likeness as many towns were back then, it is the erie light that the ghost of an age ever existed….and that is the same year the directory came out……and Doc Holliday was gone from the area…..1875.76 was a mid decade for Texas at the time…and the rail roads had come in …
.Just thing you had to get up at 6 am some got up at 4, get water, dressed and then find or cook food, they had no McDonalds,and cafes there, it was ruff and slow…..Hot dirty and yet peaceful compared to today…..while this si the legacy of where we had come from is you are born here….
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When I was a kid in N.California I got up at 5:30, brought in cows, brought in horses, separated the milk, and ate most of a loaf of bread for breakfast. Then saddled horses to check and repair fences. Hot, dusty, exhausting. For lunch you ate fast and slept for half an hour. And if you were coming back on horseback, you slept in the saddle. I was born in San Francisco.
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