Gabe I think you are right also.
I don't think the rifle has been added to the picture. Which would have been a hard thig to do in the 1890 - 1900 photographic technoogy.
You had better guess again, lots of photos from that era were edited, cut and past, for real and then take a picture of the picture.
I don't think the rifle has been added to the picture. Which would have been a hard thig to do in the 1890 - 1900 photographic technoogy.
Why would the hunter be bear hunting without a rifle?
He wasn't, that's why he got the bear, provided it ain't added also which I'm now not sure of. Very simple, they ain't way out in the deep woods, the picture was most likey taken right behind the photo studio, cameras were real big then, There were a lot of photo gimicks back then.