Jim, Thank you for the info. I didn't know who had taken this picture, the photo is from Benard's collection of photos that weren't sent to me by his grandson. I will send this info to him as he may not know this history.
This is one of four photos were taken by Erwin E. Smith in 1910 when Quanah, Topay, and Tonarcy, and Weckeah visited the Matador Ranch in Texas.
The photos are in the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth Texas. Erwin E. Smith (1886–1947) always wanted to be a cowboy and an artist. When he was a boy growing up in Bonham, a town in Fannin County in North Texas, the era of the great trail drives was over, and he feared that the old ways of the cowboy were disappearing. However, the legend and myth of the cowboy was just beginning. Popular literature, art by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, and the fledgling film industry promoted a romantic, yet often inaccurate, image of the cowboy. For his part, Smith resolved to honor the life of the cowboy by presenting as true a portrayal as possible.
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The photos are in the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth Texas. Erwin E. Smith (1886–1947) always wanted to be a cowboy and an artist. When he was a boy growing up in Bonham, a town in Fannin County in North Texas, the era of the great trail drives was over, and he feared that the old ways of the cowboy were disappearing. However, the legend and myth of the cowboy was just beginning. Popular literature, art by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, and the fledgling film industry promoted a romantic, yet often inaccurate, image of the cowboy. For his part, Smith resolved to honor the life of the cowboy by presenting as true a portrayal as possible.