Okay, this has gotten to be really bizarre. This is a great old picture of a train of supplies going up Ute Pass in the Rockies in Colorado taken by James Thomas Thurlow around 1874. It's a stereoscopic photo, meaning that it was viewed in a stereoscope, and was thus made to look 3 dimensional. If you open the image below up to full size, you can see that there's a label on the bottom of the picture that says "Indian Supply Train in Ute Pass". So, there's not much question about where the picture was taken.
Now, many people say that the picture reminds them of being near Oatman, Arizona. There's a road that travels through Oatman and up into the mountains just west of town. The top of the pass is known as Sitgreaves Pass, and sits at 3,586 feet above sea level. Ute pass is in the Rockies in Colorado, and it tops out at 9,165 feet above sea level. Roughly two and a half times the elevation of Sitgreaves, and about 700 miles east of Oatman, Arizona.
Here's what the Library of Congress has to say about it:
https://www.loc.gov/item/2005686885/
About this Item
- Title: Manitou and Vicinity. Indian Supply Train in Ute Pass
- Names: Thurlow, J. (James Thomas), 1831-1878, photographer
- Created/Published: Manitou, Colorado: J. Thurlow, photo, [between 1874 and 1878]
James Thomas Thurlow was born in Bedford, England on the 13th of November, 1831. He passed away in Manitou Springs, Colorado on December 25, 1878 after having moved there and set up his photography studio in 1872. There is a snippet of his obituary in a newspaper on Find A Grave that mentions pneumonia and his passing from not recovering from it.