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RAGSDALE, MCARTHUR CULLEN (1849-1944)
Group of 7 boudoir cards from Ragsdale's series "Views of Concho Country" that includes views from San Angelo, West Texas depicting cowboys roping calves, rustling cattle and eating at the chuck wagon, and more. Printing-out paper prints, 5x8 3/4 inches (12.7x22.2 cm.), each with a printed credit, 4 with a printed title on mount recto, and 2 numbered and titled in the negative. Early 1880s
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Notes: a strong suite of photographs by ragsdale, an itinerant photographer who settled in San Angelo, Texas in the early 1880s. Ragsdale's original mounted photographs of the lives of cowboy's are highly uncommon today. In 1918, the bulk of his glass plate negatives were destroyed, and the Fort Concho Museum is the single repository of his work.
One of the photographs depicts Jack Miles, a well-known cattle rancher, roping a steer (possibly at the annual county fair). The Miles family owned a number of large ranches in the San Angelo area. See "A Ragsdale Biography" and "M. C. Ragsdale: Chronicler of a Myth," from the "Fort Concho Report," Summer 1987 and J. Evetts Haley's focus on the frontier (Amarillo: Shamrock Oil and Gas Corporation, 1957).
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