Photographs of the Old West

Frederick Monsen's ethnographic photos of the American West

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In his Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (2012), John Koenig first coined the word sonder as:

sonder

n. the realisation that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own — populated with their own ambitions…