Antique Photographs Page 9

HEAVY MORTAR CREW 179TH REGIMENT PHOTO.

U.S. Army photo Heavy Mortar Crew of 179th Regiment 45th U.S. Infantry. $250

COWBOY CABINET CARD PHOTO.

This is a nice cabinet card photo of cowboy wearing his chaps and gun around his waist. And holding a nice rawhide rope. $525

OUTLAW SOAPY SMITH.

The infamous Soapy Smith was a late 19th century American old west confidence man and gambler par excellence. Known as the “king of the frontier confidence men” he was beyond comparison the most artful grifter of his time. As a crime lord Soapy organized a large and powerful gang of talented soundrels and rogues in order to assume control of the criminal underworlds in Denver and Creede, Colorado, between the years 1884 and 1895, and in Skagway, Alaska, during the Klondike gold rush of 1896-1898. In the latter he was known in the newspapers around the nation as the “uncrowned king of Skagway.” Soapy Smith was the last of his kind, an old west crime figure who refused to give up the old ways for a constantly changing, modernizing nation. He was shot dead in a horrific gunfight while facing angry vigilantes on July 8, 1898. Four days prior, he had been the man of the hour. He had led Skagway’s first Independence Day parade as one of its grand marshals, and he stood on stage along side Alaska Territorial Governor John Brady. Four days later he died, labeled a criminal outlaw.
This is the story of a very complex criminal. Although a bad man, he was also a self-styled patriot and a charitable man, strikingly generous to those in need. He was known to his peers and enemies for his bravery and loyalty to his gang, friends, and family. His motto was “Get it while the get’in’s good.” In the days of the old west, no one proved more slippery. P.O.R

JOHNNY BAKER WILD WEST.

Showman, Entertainer. Foster son of William “Buffalo Bill” Cody. Although his parents never allowed Cody to officially adopt him, he nevertheless travelled, worked and studied with Buffalo Bill from the age of 7 years, after the death of Cody’s natural son, Kit Carson, in 1876 at the age of 5. Under Cody’s tutelage he became the sharpshooter star of “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” show in the United States and Europe, and later was manager and booker worldwide for the show until Cody’s death in 1917. He then founded the Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum. Cabinet Photo. $975

JESSE JAMES SHOW ELKTON S.D.

CDV Photo of the Jesse James Show At Elkton S.D. 25c for tickets. $925

HOME WERE JESSE JAMES WAS KILLED

Photo says at bottom JESSE JAMES KILLED IN THIS HOUSE APRIL,3 1882. $795

JESSE & FRANK JAMES HOMESTEAD.

Home of Jesse & Frank James. Charging 50 cents to tour the famous outlaws home. Frank James posing in front of the Homestead. $875

COWBOYS PLAYING CARDS.

CDV Photo of cowboys playing cards. $495

JESSE & FRANK JAMES AMBROTYPE PHOTO.

Ambrotype photo of Jesse & Frank James of the James Younger Gang. Jesse second from left and Frank thrid from left. P.O.R

JESSE & FRANK JAMES FAMILY JAMES GANG.

Jesse and his brother Frank James were Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War. They were accused of participating in atrocities committed against Union soldiers. After the war, as members of one gang or another, they robbed banks, stagecoaches and trains. Despite popular portrayals of James as a kind of Robin Hood, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, there is no evidence that he and his gang used their robbery gains for anyone but themselves.

The James brothers were most active with their gang from about 1866 until 1876, when their attempted robbery of a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, resulted in the capture or deaths of several members. They continued in crime for several years, recruiting new members, but were under increasing pressure from law enforcement. On April 3, 1882, Jesse James was killed by Robert Ford, who was a member of the gang living in the James house and who was hoping to collect a state reward on James’ head. P.O.R

ARKANSAS TOM JONES OUTLAW.

Roy Daugherty, also known as Arkansas Tom Jones, was an outlaw of the Old West, and a member of the Wild Bunch gang, led by Bill Doolin. Born into a staunchly religious family in Missouri, his two brothers became preachers. CDV Photo. $2150

GENERAL CUSTER LAST SITTING PHOTO.

George Armstrong Custer was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1858, where he graduated last in his class. Cabinet Card. $2550

VIGILANTE JOHN X. BEIDLER.

John 1831-1890 was born in Pennsylvania and migrated West to Kansas before the Civil war. He joined John Brown’s border ruffians he left Kansas for Texas when Brown went to Harper’s Ferry and settled in Virginia City, Montana in 1863. $550

Tiburcio Vasquez CALIFORNIA OUTLAW.

Tiburcio Vásquez was a Californio bandido who was active in California from 1854 to 1874. The Vasquez Rocks, 40 miles north of Los Angeles, were one of his many hideouts and are named for him. $795

CDV PHOTO KIT CARSON.

Christopher Houston “Kit” Carson was an American frontiersman and Indian fighter. Carson left home in rural present-day Missouri at age 16 and became a mountain man and trapper in the West. $3495

WILD BILL HICKOK GRAVE SITE.

James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West. His skills as a gunfighter and scout, along with his reputation as a lawman, provided the basis for his fame, although some of his reported exploits are fictionalized.

Hickok came to the West as a fugitive from justice, first working as a stagecoach driver, before he became a lawman in the frontier territories of Kansas and Nebraska. He fought for the Union Army during the American Civil War, and gained publicity after the war as a scout, marksman, actor, and professional gambler. Between his law-enforcement duties and gambling, which easily overlapped, Hickok was involved in several notable shootouts. He was shot and killed while playing poker in the Nuttal & Mann’s Saloon in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. CDV Photo. $395

YOUNGER GANG CDV PHOTO.

The James-Younger Gang was a notable 19th-century gang of American outlaws that included Jesse James. $1895

TEXAS RANGER SLICK CLEMENTS CDV PHOTO.

William T. “Slick” Clements enlisted in 1875 as a member of Captain D.W. Robert’s Company of Texas Rangers, and later joined Major John B. Jones’ Company. According to an accompanying reprint of an article originally published in a 1924 edition of Frontier Times, Clements was best known among his fellows for his marksmanship, preferring a Smith and Wesson revolver over the more commonly used Colt. $575

COWBOY CDV PHOTO.

CDV photo of cowboy posing with his gun belt and holster and wearing fringed pants. $475