Barney Oldfield Images

Images from Barney Oldfield's racing career. Many of these are items collected from photocopies of newspapers preserved on microfilm. Many of the original photos have been lost to the ages, so some of these images rescued in this manner may be all that remains. While the quality is inferior by today's standards, they still provide interesting information about Oldfield and the events he participated in.

Oldfield & Alonzo Webb - St Louis

Barney Oldfield's Peerless Green Dragon chases down the Pope-Toledo racer of Alonzo Webb at the dirt mile horse track near St. Louis August 29, 1904. Oldfield was competing in the Louisiana Purchase Trophy and became blinded by dust kicked up from Webb's Pope-Toledo. Two spectators were killed in the accident.

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