Little Big Horn Experts

Stu Kettle · January 20, 2011, 04:25:05 PM

I don't remember who posted this picture first, or where,

but it made me wonder if maybe it wasn't the same guy is in this picture, only older.

I thought maybe the photographer got the name wrong on the later photo, & now that I've been schooled in picture posting I thought I'd put it up for debate among all you experts on the battle, or photos in general.

St. George · January 20, 2011, 05:12:47 PM

At first blush - the lower photo looks as though the individual is taller, with a rounder face, and younger.

Vaya,

Scouts Out!

Delmonico · January 20, 2011, 05:29:58 PM

Hard to tell with the hair in the top photo, but I think the guy on the bottom's ears stick out more also.

Delmonico · January 20, 2011, 05:40:30 PM

Also found this picture said to be Mr. Taylor:

Looks even a little younger.

Dirty Brass · January 20, 2011, 06:33:12 PM

The two soldier pictures could easily be the same person, but I doubt the first one is the same. The jaw is much squarer on the other two pics than the first - at least it looks that way to me....

River City John · January 20, 2011, 08:38:32 PM

Besides, the image is identified in the top pic as "W. H. Taylor".

Bottom two are I.D.'d as William O. Taylor.

I can see the same visage in the two W.O. Taylor images, but it is a different man in the first pic of W. H. Taylor.

RCJ

Stu Kettle · January 20, 2011, 09:35:12 PM

Quote from: River City John on January 20, 2011, 08:38:32 PM
Besides, the image is identified in the top pic as "W. H. Taylor".

I noticed that, but the only reference I found to William H. Taylor was the blurb about this photo from the auction site that offered it for sale.

Stu Kettle · January 20, 2011, 09:39:37 PM

Quote from: St. George on January 20, 2011, 05:12:47 PM
At first blush - the lower photo looks as though the individual is taller, with a rounder face, and younger.

The fact that he is younger and has a rounder face could be the natural effect of the years that passed between the photos, as far as being taller, I think it only appears that way because of the size of the image. Compare the height the man to the length of the saber he is posed with, and the older man's Spencer carbine.

Stu Kettle · January 20, 2011, 09:40:30 PM

Quote from: Delmonico on January 20, 2011, 05:29:58 PM
Hard to tell with the hair in the top photo, but I think the guy on the bottom's ears stick out more also.

I thought so too, but the hair does make it hard to tell for sure.

Fox Creek Kid · January 21, 2011, 05:56:56 PM

Thet are not the same. Wm. O. Taylor had his long lost account of the LBH published a few years ago. I read the book as soon as it became available.

http://www.astonisher.com/archives/museum/wm_o_taylor_big_horn.html

It is graphic, even describing the decapitation of a dazed soldier.

Stu Kettle · January 21, 2011, 07:25:12 PM

Quote from: Fox Creek Kid on January 21, 2011, 05:56:56 PM
Thet are not the same. Wm. O. Taylor had his long lost account of the LBH published a few years ago. I read the book as soon as it became available.

So did I have a copy on the shelf, its William H. that I never heard of.

Besides, I bought these pictures at a antique store & one of his distant relatives told me they are the same man... wait a minute, that wasn't me, I found these pictures on the Internet

GunClick Rick · January 22, 2011, 12:48:52 AM

Maybe it's Buck Taylors Ggrandpa

Ones right handed the other a lefty automatic response when ya grab somethin.

GunClick Rick · January 22, 2011, 12:53:57 AM

Quote from: Delmonico on January 20, 2011, 05:40:30 PM
Also found this picture said to be Mr. Taylor:

Looks even a little younger.

This guy is right handed also,he tilts his hat to the right another automatic response.I'm right handed and can't stand my hat to be tilted left.

Them other photos the photographer adjusted the hats.Me sayem it so~

Dead I · January 31, 2011, 05:59:21 PM

They are the same guy. Next question?

Stu Kettle · January 31, 2011, 06:23:32 PM

Quote from: Dead I on January 31, 2011, 05:59:21 PM
They are the same guy. Next question?

Thanks Dead I , knew I could count on you to see it my way

liten · February 01, 2011, 04:13:37 PM

na different people one is fat and other skinny and its the same time period

Stu Kettle · February 01, 2011, 04:23:14 PM

Quote from: liten on February 01, 2011, 04:13:37 PM
na different people one is fat and other skinny and its the same time period

Actually, they are about thirty years apart, hence the "one is young & one is old" thing.

FEATHERS · February 01, 2011, 06:25:09 PM

The first pic of the older gent,I think is a Col.Walter Heron Taylor.He was Gen.Lee's aide de campe thru the civil war.After doing some research he was at VMI 1853,then with Lee,later in life he was a banker & hung around with Mark Twain (hence the pic of him as a scout)The earlier pics of Col W.H.Taylor that I posted look more like the older gent than the LBH survivor.Feathers

Dead I · February 01, 2011, 06:29:15 PM

Quote from: Delmonico on January 20, 2011, 05:40:30 PM
Also found this picture said to be Mr. Taylor:

Looks even a little younger.

That looks like an engineer's do hicky on his kepi.

FEATHERS · February 01, 2011, 06:39:34 PM

more pics