Man by Horse Photo

[Skeeter Lewis]

This one's from the Butcher collection. That cowboy's starting young.

[Delmonico]

This one's from the Butcher collection. That cowboy's starting young.

They tend to out here, mostlikely some about that age helping with branding right now as we discuss their ancestors.

[kflach]

Reminds me of that picture in the Butcher Collection of the guy branding a calf that's wearing lace up work boots and bib overalls.  The giveaway in that one is the horse and rigging.  And that guy don't even have chaps on.

I was going to ask how they got the calf to wear lace up work boots and bib overalls. However, I can see we're way beyond that now, so I won't.

<grin>

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[Delmonico]

Now here is another interesting outfit, dated 1886, a crop from a staged picture by Butcher (#12635)  But even to stage a photo one has to use clothes that were availble.

Less hat and boots you can get one of these today for about $40.   

[Texas Lawdog]

It looks sorta like a Nomex flight suit.

[Delmonico]

Just a light cotton coverall, sometimes called a boiler suit because they were popular with folks who stoked boilers.

[Texas Lawdog]

I'm sorta partial to bib overalls like the guy on "Postcards from Nebraska".

[Delmonico]

I'm sorta partial to bib overalls like the guy on "Postcards from Nebraska".

Roger Welch, I know him, fed him once, now I have a friend for life.

[Russ McCrae]

I know the iron stirupps were popular down here in South Texas on saddles for in case you needed to eject out of a train wreck in a hurry!!! And for all we know he may of been a farmer/rancher with more empihais on the ranching, I got ancestors that on the gulf coast cow'ed some plus raises rice, milo and truck farming...

[Dr. Bob]

Back to the original picture, the chaps lacing is long, which I recall as being an early feature.

[Shotgun Franklin]

I've worked cows with Cowboys who used the round stirrup. They claimed that no matter how your foot caught the stirrup it felt the same. I didn't like'm myself.