Between 1868 and 1870, photographer Andrew J. Russell captured this stereograph of men working in trench carved into rock near Bitter Creek in south-central Wyoming.

Deep Cut, Bitter Creek, near Green River is part of a series: Union Pacific R.R. views, across the continent, west from Omaha.

Courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

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