'Prairie Fires of the Great West', USA, 1871. Artist: Currier and Ives

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'Prairie Fires of the Great West', USA, 1871. A locomotive with cowcatcher and headlamp hauls a passenger train across the prairie while buffalo stampede in the face of a huge fire.

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