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Cowboy circa 1887

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This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.

[edit] Biography of the Photographer

This image, entitled "The Cow Boy", was taken by John C H Grabill in 1887. In 1900 Grabill sent many of his photographic prints to Washington to have them copyrighted. The Grabill collection is now in the Library of Congress and these wonderful photographs are now in the Public Domain. Little is known about Grabill. He is believed to have made a trip to the Pacific North West to photograph the indians. The Denver Public Library has a photograph taken in 1887 (the same year as "The Cow Boy") which shows Grabill's photographic studio and assay office in Buena Vista, Colorado. The first of many articles about him in the newspapers in the Deadwood, South Dakota area is in December of 1887. He had studios in Deadwood, Lead and Sturgis. He was the official photographer of the Black Hills Railroad and the Homestake Mine. Most of his photographs were taken in South Dakota, Colorado and Wyoming. According to Arizona historian Gladwell "Toney" Richardson, who wrote both dime novels and many historical articles under the pseudonym "Maurice Kildare", "The Cow Boy" is an unknown member of Yavapai County Arizona Sheriff John Mulvenon's posse which was sent twice in 1887 to intervene in the Pleasant Valley War. "The Cow Boy" does in fact appear to be a photograph of John Fletcher Fairchild, later Sheriff of Coconino County. When Grabill retired he moved to Chicago seemingly vanishing off the face of the Earth, leaving no notes, glass plate negatives, etc. and frustrating modern historians. Some of this material is probably in the Elmo Scott Watson collection in the special collections of the Newberry Library in Chicago.

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(del) (cur) 18:43, 26 March 2005 . . Frank101 (Talk | contribs) . . 607×505 (47,630 bytes) (Clearer version of public domain photo.)
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