Cowboy Photographs. Eight Historical Reproductions

The images are of cowboys camping, eating, cooking, grinding coffee, and doing the dishes. Cowboy photographs made from the original 5" x 7" glass plates. Eight rustic images. Frank Sherman owned a photography and souvenir shop in Colorado Springs. He had three brothers, Francis and the twins Stanford and Seeley, who lived with their family on Rush Creek near Chivington, Colorado. Stanford was the roundup foreman for the Holt Cattle Company when he was only twenty years old. The Holt Cattle Company was a large ranch about twenty miles Southwest of Hugo, Colorado. It covered 100 square miles and ran about 8,000 head of cattle. It was May of 1903 and time for the spring roundup. Frank set out with his three cowboy brothers to record this rare and extensive collection of cowboy photographs. These photographs give a wonderful and rare glimpse of eastern Colorado cowboys. In 1906, Franks doctor advised him to move to a lower altitude for his health. Frank moved to Lebanon, Oregon, nearly 1500 miles away, taking the priceless negatives with him. Frank tragically died in 1922, when his shotgun misfired, hitting him in the chest and killing him instantly. His widow and the children moved away, later selling the house. In 1966, the new occupant of the house of the house discovered these negatives while cleaning the attic. She was ready to dispose of them in the city dump, but first called a local photographer to see if they would be of any value to him. In a very short time the photographer was there and took the negatives off her hands. Over ninety years later these negatives returned to the area of their origin. It was a long trail home. Per an article by Jamie Ulmer titled "The Long Trail Home," the 300 glass plate negatives from 1903 are now in the collection of Chuck and Sheri Bowen of Lamar, Colorado. These photographs are not copies of old pictures but are made from the original 5" x 7" glass plates.…