Three men travelling across the Colorado Desert in a mule-drawn wagon, ca.1903 

Photographers Dr. George Wharton James, Carl Eytel and Van Buskirk, Colorado Desert, ca.1900 

Carl Eytel and Van Buskirk with pack burros on their Colorado River trip with George Wharton James, ca.1900 

Carl Eytel, artist, sketching on his pad during his trip with George Wharton James to the Colorado River, ca.1900 

Three burros used on George Wharton James' and Carl Eytel's Colorado desert trip, showing Van Buskirk ca.1900 

Group of people with a covered wagon and tent at Indian Wells on the Butterfield Stage Line east of Palm Springs and west of Indio, ca.1903-1904 

Horse-drawn buggy on the sand dunes of the Colorado Desert, ca.1900 

Two horse-drawn wagons on the road between the Painted Desert and the San Francisco Mountains, Arizona, ca.1900 

Two covered wagons fording the little Colorado River beside a cable ferry, 1903 

Lone man in a hat walking in the Colorado Desert near Palm Springs, 1903-1904 

Staging (riding in a stage) in the Mountains with a spring wagon, ca.1880 

Dr. George Wharton James and five others pulling themselves across the Colorado Chiquito River by cable ferry, ca.1900-1903 

Group of people making camp at Indian Wells on the Butterfield Stage Line, ca.1904 

Bell and horse-drawn wagon in front of a mission, Arizona or New Mexico, ca.1903 

Wagon on a ferry crossing the upper Colorado River at Lee's Ferry, Grand Canyon, 1900-1930 

Wagon on a ferry crossing the upper Colorado River at Lee's Ferry, Grand Canyon, 1900-1930 

Thousand Palms Canyon in the Colorado Desert, ca.1903-1904 

Juin, a Yuma Indian, Colorado River boatman, and interpreter during a trip of George Wharton James on the river, ca.1900 

Horse-drawn wagon on a road through the Gaviota Pass, Santa Barbara County, California, ca.1900-1940 

Small outboard stranded on a sandbar in the Colorado River, ca.1900