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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 the barbed wire and the closing of the free range. Before then, each man took his turn at holding the herd. [The "sleeping" cowboy is

Erwin E. Smith (1886-1947)

Object Details

  • 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.S6.186

  • Copyright

    Public domain

Additional details

Location: Off view
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