"Waking a Night Rider." This duty of the early day cowpuncher, like many others, went out of practice with the coming of barbed wire and large pastures for holding the herd. [The "sleeping" cowboy is George Patullo.] Three Block Ranch, New Mexico.

Erwin E. Smith (1886-1947)

Date

1908-1909
Object Type

Negatives and Transparencies
Medium

Gelatin dry plate negative
Dimensions

5 x 7 in.
Inscriptions

[None]
Collection Name

Erwin E. Smith LC Collection
Credit Line

Erwin E. Smith Collection of the Library of Congress on Deposit at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

LC.S6.239
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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"Waking a Night Rider." This duty of the early day cowpuncher, like many others, went out of practice with the coming of barbed wire and large pastures for holding the herd. [The "sleeping" cowboy is George Patullo.] Three Block Ranch, New Mexico.

George Pattullo in his tenderfoot days, mounted and ready to ride the Texas plains. JA Ranch, Texas., 1908

[Erwin E. Smith on "sunfisher," Dexter, Bonham, Texas], 1908

"Come and Git It!," Three Block Ranch, New Mexico, 1908-1909

Untitled (Pittsburgh Housing), 1930s

A Matador cook at the business end of a chuck wagon after the cowpunchers have had breakfast and gone for a day's work. Matador Ranch, Texas., 1909

Photographer Erwin E. Smith eating a mid-morning snack of canned tomatoes, an important item in the early day of cowboy's diet. OR Ranch, Arizona., 1909

Zerogram, 2017

Captain Tom R. Hickman standing by his horse at rodeo arena, Fort Worth, ca. 1926

The Time Game, 2011

"Waking a Night Rider." This duty of the early day cowpuncher, like many others, went out of practice with the coming of barbed wire and large pastures for holding the herd. [The "sleeping" cowboy is George Patullo.] Three Block Ranch, New Mexico.

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