[ansel12]

Ask yourself this, if you were thrown back to the 1880s, do you really think that once you could see all those young ladies in the flesh and look into their eyes that you would not feel the same way that you always do when you meet young, good looking women?

Perhaps 130 year old black and white photos from primitive camera boxes and poses don’t do a very good job of conveying reality in that sense.

[NavyCanDo]

I didn't imply they were all ugly. Only that the women and men on the frontier and settlements in the West led a hard life, and they didn't spend much time at the mirror in the morning making them selves look presentable. They didn't smile much in those old photos either, but that don't mean that had no teeth.