Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
Forum rules
Welcome to the Leverguns.Com General Discussions Forum. This is a high-class place so act respectable. We discuss most anything here other than politics... politely.
Please post political post in the new Politics forum.
Welcome to the Leverguns.Com General Discussions Forum. This is a high-class place so act respectable. We discuss most anything here other than politics... politely.
Please post political post in the new Politics forum.
-
- Advanced Levergunner
- Posts: 2427
- Joined: Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:37 pm
- Location: Texas
Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
"That'll Be The Day"
- gamekeeper
- Spambot Zapper
- Posts: 17463
- Joined: Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:32 pm
- Location: Over the pond unfortunately.
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
Boy, they look the real deal.
Whatever you do always give 100%........... unless you are donating blood.
- crs
- Advanced Levergunner
- Posts: 3154
- Joined: Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:32 am
- Location: Republic of Texas
- Contact:
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
Does not look like a photo studio to me!
CRS, NRA Benefactor Member, TSRA, DRSS, DWWC, Whittington Center
Android Ballistics App at http://www.xplat.net/
Android Ballistics App at http://www.xplat.net/
- J Miller
- Member Emeritus
- Posts: 14885
- Joined: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:46 pm
- Location: Not in IL no more ... :)
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
He is the real deal.
The photograph was taken by Erwin E. Smith.
Ed Bomar poised with his gun beside his cutting horse "Rabbit". Turkey Track Ranch, Texas, 1906
Nitrate negative
This photo and a gazillion more can be found here:
http://www.cartermuseum.org/collections ... =6&scat=27
Sorry rangerider7, for a change I knew where something came from and just had to show it.
Joe
The photograph was taken by Erwin E. Smith.
Ed Bomar poised with his gun beside his cutting horse "Rabbit". Turkey Track Ranch, Texas, 1906
Nitrate negative
This photo and a gazillion more can be found here:
http://www.cartermuseum.org/collections ... =6&scat=27
Sorry rangerider7, for a change I knew where something came from and just had to show it.
Joe
***Be sneaky, get closer, bust the cap on him when you can put the ball where it counts .***
-
- Advanced Levergunner
- Posts: 2427
- Joined: Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:37 pm
- Location: Texas
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
No problem, it is a great website. I just didn't take the time to title who it was. I think that is a Winchester 1894 Short Rifle. NEAT!
"That'll Be The Day"
- J Miller
- Member Emeritus
- Posts: 14885
- Joined: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:46 pm
- Location: Not in IL no more ... :)
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
It sure looks like it doesn't it?rangerider7 wrote:No problem, it is a great website. I just didn't take the time to title who it was. I think that is a Winchester 1894 Short Rifle. NEAT!
I wonder if "this" Turkey Track ranch is the one Skeeter Skelton was using as his base for some of his stories?
Joe
***Be sneaky, get closer, bust the cap on him when you can put the ball where it counts .***
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
Talk about the real deal a cowboy and his horse looks like he has a cigar in his vest pocket clothes are well fitted and I like his slickfork rig I'd guess hes the Segundo ? danny
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
I believe this "Turkey Track Ranch" is in the (Texas) Panhandle.J Miller wrote:It sure looks like it doesn't it?rangerider7 wrote:No problem, it is a great website. I just didn't take the time to title who it was. I think that is a Winchester 1894 Short Rifle. NEAT!
I wonder if "this" Turkey Track ranch is the one Skeeter Skelton was using as his base for some of his stories?
Joe
http://www.ranches.org/Turkey_Track.htm
- J Miller
- Member Emeritus
- Posts: 14885
- Joined: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:46 pm
- Location: Not in IL no more ... :)
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
Warhawk,
Interesting read. I bookmarked it and will compare the two later.
Joe
Interesting read. I bookmarked it and will compare the two later.
Joe
***Be sneaky, get closer, bust the cap on him when you can put the ball where it counts .***
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
So how could one tell if that rifle was a Winchester 1892 or 1894? The size and top eject just screams 1892 to me, but the 1894's came in the same configurations.
"The heart Ramon. Aim for the heart or you'll never stop me."
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
I copied and zoomed it, looks like a 94.
Nice picture.
Nice picture.
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt-
Isnt it amazing how many people post without reading the thread?
Isnt it amazing how many people post without reading the thread?
-
- Advanced Levergunner
- Posts: 2569
- Joined: Sat Sep 15, 2007 12:51 pm
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
Rifle aside... To me, if he was wearing a Walker in a cross draw rig, it would look like you know who...Neat photo
"IT IS MY OPINION, AND I AM CORRECT SO DON'T ARGUE, THE 99 SAVAGE IS THE FINEST RIFLE EVER MADE IN AMERICA."
WIL TERRY
WIL TERRY
-
- Senior Levergunner
- Posts: 1204
- Joined: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:00 pm
- Location: Iowa
- Contact:
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
Is it just me or does that man have STYLE!!
LK
LK
- J Miller
- Member Emeritus
- Posts: 14885
- Joined: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:46 pm
- Location: Not in IL no more ... :)
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
gglass,gglass wrote:So how could one tell if that rifle was a Winchester 1892 or 1894? The size and top eject just screams 1892 to me, but the 1894's came in the same configurations.
The differences between the 92 and 94 are subtle but definite. The action is longer enough to see it if you are familiar with both. The bottom of the receiver is shaped different and the loading gate on the 94 is longer than the 92. The levers are also a bit different. Put all those together and that rifle is a 94.
Joe
***Be sneaky, get closer, bust the cap on him when you can put the ball where it counts .***
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
That Winchester is not really a "short rifle". If it was such it would have the 8 3/8" forearm to complement a 20" barrel. The gun "appears" to have standard 9 3/8" front wood and a specially ordered 22'' barrel. I haven't the technology to blow it up and check for certain, but that's what the photo is telling me. Regardless, it is a great vintage photo.
"Congressmen who willfully take actions during wartime that damage morale, and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled or hanged"....President Abraham Lincoln
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
In a other pic of him he was wearing a, looks like, colt 71/2 colt in a crossdraw rig, classy cowboy, probably same rig in this pic. danny
Last edited by BigSky56 on Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
Just look at that utterly flat, treeless backdrop. That could only be the Texas panhandle or the surface of the moon...
Texas State Rifle Association http://www.tsra.com
Freemason. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry
Freemason. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry
-
- Advanced Levergunner
- Posts: 9075
- Joined: Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:05 am
- Location: Sweetwater, TX
Re: Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.
My great grandfather had a ranch just upriver on the Canadian from the Turkey Track. You go through miles of the ranch to get the site of the Adobe Walls battle -- and the grave of Medal of Honor winner Billy Dixon. The place is simply alive with history.