Albumen Photograph - "Snubbing A Wild Mare, Putting On A Hackamore"

L. A. HUFFMAN

Publication: Photographed by L A Huffman, n d (ca 1885), Miles City, Montana

Albumen photograph [9 cm x 11 cm] / [3 1/2" x 4.1/4"] on a tan mount [11 cm x 13 cm] / [4 1/2" x 5"]. Inked manuscript title at the foot of the photographic mount. Huffman. 'Miles City, MT' ink hand-stamp on back over a 'R.R. Streter, Helen, M.T.' hand-stamp. "Cattle + Cowboy, No. XI" manuscript on back. View of two cowboys. One cowboy holds down a horse while another puts on rope bridle. This image appears on page 152 of "Before Barbed Wire: L.A. Huffman, Photographer on Horseback." and is titled "Putting on a Hackamore." Laton Alton Huffman (1854 – 1951) was born in Iowa and learned the craft of photography from his father. In the summer of 1878 he apprenticed at Moorhead, Minnesota, with the later famous Yellowstone Park photographer F. Jay Haynes. By December 1878 Huffman obtained his first professional appointment as a civilian post photographer at Fort Keogh, Montana Territory, near Miles City. This position gave him his start on what turned out to be a lifetime project, that of photographing eastern Montana and northern Wyoming during the last two decades of the western frontier. Very good condition.

Inventory Number: 51983