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[Vern Elliott on bucking buffalo at Cheyenne Frontier Days] – Historic Reproduction

[Vern Elliott on bucking buffalo at Cheyenne Frontier Days] — historic photograph
[Vern Elliott on bucking buffalo at Cheyenne Frontier Days]. Historic photograph from the Buffalo collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures [Vern Elliott on bucking buffalo at Cheyenne Frontier Days] in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Vern Elliott on bucking buffalo at Cheyenne Frontier Days]

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A rider named Vern Elliott is caught mid-ride at Cheyenne Frontier Days, the Wyoming festival that began in 1897 to celebrate the cattle and ranching life of the American West. The 1910 date places the picture in the early years of organized rodeo, when staged contests of cowboy skill were drawing large crowds and photographers were just beginning to capture the action. Events built around bucking animals tested a rider's balance and nerve, and photographs from this period show how those contests looked to spectators at the time.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1910
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,206 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124308

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