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The last real old west cowboys,
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This review is from: The West That Was (Hardcover)
This and a companion book, "Cowboys", are full of photos taken in 1903 on a large ranch at Hugo, CO. founded by Wm. T. Holt. The pictures involved three ranches, The Holt, the Field, and the Barker. The ranch land at that time still had large areas of open range, and the cattlemen still held roundups. The pictures were all taken within a short span of time by a professional photographer, Frank Sherman, whose brothers worked on this ranch as cowboys. One of them was the foreman. Frank had a photography studio in Colorado Springs. The pictures depict a real roundup.
The photographer took over 300 pictures on 5x7 glass negatives. During the days of Frank's project President Teddy Roosevelt came through Hugo on a train. The cowboys set up the chuck wagon at the station, and fed Roosevelt breakfast. There are pictures of this event in "Cowboys". But for sheer luck these photos would have ended up in the city dump at Lebanon, Oregon. The house that Frank lived in in later life was being sold in 1966 by the then owner. She called John Eggen, a local photographer, and asked if he wanted some old boxes of glass negatives. He went out and got them. They are a treasure trove for anyone interested in the way old time cowboys really lived. Buy both of these books. I did. |
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The West That Was by John E. Eggen (Hardcover - Mar. 1997)
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