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“Reparations”

No.2 in the Panther Rennaissance series

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Alexandre Brun

“View of the Salon Carré at the Louvre”

(1880)

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Art by Arthur B. Frost

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Anyway I could break a horse in, the ol fashioned way, full apparel, got the chaps and spurs on, good piece of leather, and hang on while spurrin that son of a bitch. The ranker and wilder the horse, the better.

theartofmany

Artist: Halil Ural Title: Ambush ”=)” They are up to something not good at all Very good…

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“Outnumbered” – art by Charles M. Russell, 1898

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Storm: Waiting for the Caravan, Alfred Jacob Miller, 1858-60

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Stunning color images dating from just before the turn of the 19th century depict a rugged cowboy brandishing a lasso, a miner enjoying a smoke, and a pioneer merchant plying his wares.

Many of the photochroms were captured in Colorado during the 1880s and 1890s, where a gold rush in the 1850s drew crowds of hopeful prospectors looking to make their fortune.

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Photochrom was invented in the 1880s and was most popular in the 1890s, when these images were taken.

This is a method of making colorized photographs from black and white negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates.

Although true color photography had been developed by then it was not commercially practical yet.

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“As he spoke he hurled his horse against Hopalong’s, while his right hand flashed to his hip”: Image from page 348 of “Buck Peters: Ranchman” (1912). Book by Clarence E. Mulford; illustration by Maynard Dixon