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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Above: A. A. Forbes first became famous for his images captured as a cowboy photographer in the 1880's. The above photo was taken by Forbes on April 22, 1889 at the Oklahoma Land Rush. About 50,000 land seekers raced off to grab their share of the 2,000,000 acres being given away.</span></i></div>
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Tim Waaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17519482487162530986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417541436990122650.post-41028843706943379712015-08-31T15:28:00.003-07:002015-11-17T11:30:49.008-08:00Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Click to enlarge photos.</span><br />
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I recently ran into these photos of the Oklahoma Land Rush. Forbes gained early fame for his capturing of these images on April 22, 1889. He took these while he was in his transition period from cowboy to pioneer photographer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Two Oklahoma Land Rush Photographs, "The Start" No. 149 and No. 150 by A. A. Forbes ca 1889. The Oklahoma land rush of 1889 was as much a celebration as it was an attempt to settle the region, considered some of the best unoccupied public land in the country. The rush started at high noon on April 22, 1889 with an estimated 50,000 people lined up for their piece of the available two million acres, and countless thousands more looking on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Description of the 2 photos from the auction house, Heritage Auctions: Here we have two nearly identical images by A.A. Forbes, each taken as the land rush began and the first of the 50,000 set off to stake their claims. Images measure approximately 7.5" x 4" and are affixed to slightly larger mounts, one of which bears Forbes' ink stamp on verso. Although one image is less exposed than the other, both are in fine condition.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />These 2 photos appear to have been sold at auction in 2008. You can find the links to these 2 photos above <a href="http://historical.ha.com/itm/photography/official-photos/two-oklahoma-land-rush-photographs-the-start-by-a-a-forbes-ca-1889/a/689-72559.s"><b><span style="color: #990000;">by clicking here</span></b></a>. Auction house info below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3500 Maple Ave., 17th Floor</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">877-HERITAGE (437-4824)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(214) 528-3500</span><br />
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Tim Waaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17519482487162530986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417541436990122650.post-73395358741800678332015-06-28T10:02:00.000-07:002015-08-31T15:25:41.103-07:00Matlock Lake, Calif.<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We recently had a person write in about an A. A. Forbes photo in their posession:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dear Mr. Waag,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I came across your blog on A.A. Forbes. Just thought to let you know I have a Forbes photo of Matlock Lake in my office. If you ever need to copy it just let me know. I showed it to someone at the LA County Natural History Museum about 10 years ago and he liked it. I'm not trying to sell it, only want to let you know it exists.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best wishes, A.P.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sorry it took so long to get back to you. My A.A.Forbes project has a long way to go, but I’m still interested. For any original Forbes image, we are looking to obtain the following things:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- high quality scan of front and back</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- “tape measure” dimension of both the image and the print (if they are different)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- provenance of the image</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- location where it was taken and when</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- description of the physical condition of the image</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">- description of the quality of the image, and image details as seen under a loupe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Note that we are not looking to purchase Forbes images, but are looking to have them donated to the <a href="http://www.inyocounty.us/ecmsite/"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Eastern California Museum</span></b></a> in Independence. Please keep that in mind. However, if the owner is not interested in having the image scanned, we might be interested in acquiring it from the owner. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks so much for sharing this image.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you do not have experience with high quality reference scans, they can be obtained at most print shops at reasonable cost. If the charge to scan is reasonable and you are not inclined to pay for your image to live in perpetuity, we also may be willing to pay for the scan charge - please let us know.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">—Tim and Brian</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About Matlock Lake, California: </b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right off the bat, found a nice link to a trail going to Matlock Lake, which you can go to </span><a href="http://calitrails.com/2013/06/05/onion-valley-to-matlock-lake-the-great-escape/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">by clicking here</span></b></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Here's a photo from the same vantage point which I stole off the CaliTrails web site.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Matlock Lake is in the Onion Valley area near Bishop, Calif. Above is a map I also borrowed from the CaliTrails web site. It shows Matlock Lake with the massive wall to the West of the lake that is featured in Forbes photo as well as the modern photo above. Looks like a great place to visit. In this case, the CaliTrails author did an overnight out-and-back backpack to Matlock Lake from a campground.</span><br />
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Tim Waaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17519482487162530986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417541436990122650.post-85353892777065656622014-03-17T18:16:00.001-07:002015-06-28T10:03:43.385-07:00Doc-003: Postcard in Andrew Forbes Own Handwriting<b>Doc-003: </b>This postcard below was written from Andrew Forbes to Mrs. J. M. Forbes. Right now, I am guessing that Mrs. J. M. Forbes is the wife of his only child, James McLaren Forbes - will have to investigate this further. The postcard was mailed on May 26, 1913. This gives us the first confirmed writing sample of Andrew Forbes. Boy, his handwriting sure was messy, if this post card is any indication! Postcard courtesy of Toureson / Bailly.<br />
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<i>Dear Mother,</i></div>
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<i>Card from Mary</i></div>
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<i>today and both</i></div>
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<i>doing well. Will</i></div>
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<i>start home as soon</i></div>
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<i>as sure that I will</i></div>
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<i>not get the mumps.</i></div>
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<i>Love your son,</i></div>
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<i>Love, Andrew</i></div>
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<i>Mrs. J. M. Forbes</i></div>
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<i>May 26, 1913 9pm Cal.</i></div>
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<i>1 cent postage.</i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Andrew Alexander Forbes 1862-1921</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> HSUMD ~ Tim Waag ~ March 18, 2014 at 7pm</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forbes was a prolific photographer…</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">…He’s everywhere!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Who are the Waag Bros.? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (Tim)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Maturango Salt Tram Bucket)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our Micro-History Investigations</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Saline Valley Salt Co.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Beveridge Mining District (including the Lonesome Miner Trail)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goler Wash / Striped Butte Valley</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Saga of Louise Grantham and her Warm Springs Mining Adventures</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Retracing the route of the 1925 Bob Eichbaum Toll Road</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Retracing the route of the 25-mile Skidoo Pipeline</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and many more!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our Micro-History Investigations</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Why do we mention this?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We encourage you to do your own investigations</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Example: Sandy Rogers "Epsom Salts Monorail" book</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We always leave wanting to know more!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our list gets LONGER with every trip – not SHORTER!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Waag Bros. Table</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Waag Bros. Table</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Say "Hi" to Tracy! (thanks)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We'll be at table before and after the meeting to talk</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A few fun researchy things to see</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some free things</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Some fun things to buy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sold either at Cost or $$$ Goes to ECM</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sign-up Sheet (email only)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forbes shooting Sierras panorama</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Time for an A. A. Forbes Photo!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thanks to the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Eastern California Museum…</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thanks to the </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Eastern California Museum…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goal Tonight - Part 1</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Honor A. A. Forbes amazing photo work </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Honor the man who was A. A. Forbes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Work not fully understood or examined (as far as we can tell!)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forbes - the person - not fully appreciated</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Main Street – Bishop, Calif.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Time for Another Forbes Photo</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Goal Tonight – Part 2</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Inspire everyone to find out more</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Motivate you to reveal Forbes works</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Save his work from your attic...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">...before it ends up in the dump – FOREVER</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forbes’ grandmother Lucinda</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Your Attic Full of Treasure?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Recent Finds (just last 3 months):</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Salt Tram Suitcase” 1998</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1912 Salt Tram “Report to Shareholders” by Goodman</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Extensive material on Bakersfield trucker C. W. Hayes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Connected with Forbes family members (they found me!) </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How we got interested in Forbes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How we got interested in Forbes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Salt Tram, of course! (Good Guess!)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Kept seeing Forbes name on Salt Co. photos</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Confirmed Forbes was at tram in 1912</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">New Salt Tram shirts coming soon!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pack trail above Zig Zag trail</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How we got interested in Forbes:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Salt Wagon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Uncertain date</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Unknown location - we're looking!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Likely in the 1903 - 1905 timeframe (L. Borland)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Photos indicate Forbes packed entire tram route</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Photo: Salt Wagon / Salt Lake Horses</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Salt Lake Operations</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Other Salt Tram photographers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (J. W. Bledsoe)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bledsoe Photo Co. L. A. Cal.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Active in late 19th and early 20th century</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Contract Commercial photographer</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Los Angeles DWP Collection - USC library</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Great Grandson: Charles F. Delwiche, Professor, Cell Biology and Molecular Geetics, University of Maryland.”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Workers out on Salt Lake / San Francisco</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Other Salt Tram photographers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (Burton Frasher Sr.)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Frasher Fotos (Pomona Library 7,500 postcards of California and Southwest)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Burton Frasher Sr. (1888-1955) </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Frasher came after Forbes - Started in 1916</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Moved studio to Pomona in 1921 (year of Forbes' passing)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In 1948, over 3 1/2 million "Frasher Fotos" postcards were sold nationwide</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Other Salt Tram Updates</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oldest stock certificate: May 12, 1914</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thanks to "Friends of Salt Tram" who donated (including HSUMD!)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1912 report to the shareholders by J. A. Goodman (copies now available)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Waag Bros. 2012 and 2013 off - back to work!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tim and Roberta / Stock Certificate</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How We Became Interested in </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Andrew Alexander Forbes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We're out exploring and find something of interest</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hey, let's buy the book!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What? No book?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Well, I guess we've got to make the book!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Photo: Bodie, Calif.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How We Became Interested in </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Andrew Alexander Forbes</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Happy to help other Forbes fans</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Collaborators - Not Collectors</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Investigating cameras Forbes used and sold</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Postcard revolution</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Annotating negatives</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Photo: Forbes / Austin?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forbes / Austin?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Time for Audience Participation</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Let's explore what the audience knows about Forbes?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Honest: who has NEVER heard of Forbes?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forbes work is mostly hidden in museums, libraries and personal collections</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We'd like to change that</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Photo Annotations</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">First thing we noticed "Forbes Studio"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Many variations in text</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Many variations in writing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Should give clues to photo dates</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">An interesting study</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Photo: 1916 Indian Baby Show / Captain John – Last of the Pauite Chiefs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Strengths: 1. Subject Matter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Oklahoma land rush and cowboys</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Native Americans in natural settings</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Owens Valley and surrounding areas</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Southern Calif. And Death Valley</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Landscapes and portraits</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dogged pursuit of subject matter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Eaton and the Aqueduct</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Photo: Captain John / King John</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Strengths: 2. Technique</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sharpness and richness of tonality</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8 x 10 or larger negatives</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Native American photos are primary research sources</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Magnifiers yield additional detail</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Known to experiment with all techniques (kite)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Photo: Stonewall Jackson –Interpreter</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Strengths: 3. Technical Comp.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Artlessness of presentation: the art is in the truth</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not heavily manipulated</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Captured the natural character of the subject</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Prolific output of photos: no time for staging</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We don't see “2. Technique” in many Forbes photos</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Photo: TE-HA age 125 years - 1904</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A. A. Forbes Photo Collections</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Western History Collections</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">University of Oklahoma Libraries</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">LA County Museum of Natural History</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Private collections</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Museums and libraries throughout the west</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Too many to count</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">University of Oklahoma </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1885-1889 Forbes Collection</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cowboys around the chuck wagon, c. 1885.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Outfit gathered around chuck wagon at meal time, c. 1885.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Group of K men around the chuck wagon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Group of cowboys watching one of their companions ride a bronc, c. 1885.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Three women and two children in front of their sod house, c. 1889.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gilaloo Post Office, Texas panhandle </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The “Forbes Catalog”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">LA County Museum of Natural History</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The keys to the Forbes kingdom</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What's in it? What format?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What does it look like?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How can we get in to see it?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ECM knows someone who has seen it – we want to see it!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forbes Studio 1902? - 1916</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bishop, California</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Had a son (J. McLaren Forbes) with Mary during this time</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Advertised Regularly in the Inyo Register</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Continued to “travel” with his “photographic kit” and wagon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Random IR Advertisements</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Share or Donate Forbes Stuff</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We're just getting started...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">...But its worth it</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We bought a Forbes postcard of the Salt Tram on eBay</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Donated to the Eastern California Museum</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forbes remains largely unknown </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Andrew’s mobile “photographic kit”</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Main catalog of Forbes work</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The story of his life (all of it)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Photographic references are nonexistent</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Summer 1975 - Page 38 - 59</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Only known biographical info. – Where did Jon Bosak (author) get it? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“The unmannered style of Forbes photographs are closer to…Indian photographers [that pre-dated him] … Soule and Hillers</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Little Credit to Forbes</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dear Mother, Card from Mary today and both doing well. Will start home as soon as sure that I will not get the mumps. Love your son, Love, Andrew</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mrs. J. M. Forbes, 831 3rd, Santa Ana, Cal</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">May 26, 1913 9pm Cal.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Andrew Alexander Forbes was born April 21, 1862, in Ottowa Township, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States of America.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Son of James McLaren Forbes (from Scotland) and Lucinda Parmelia Sanders (from New York); 5th of 8 children.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. The Life and Times of</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Late 1880s: Forbes started his professional career as an itinerant photographer, working with other skilled cameramen such as William Pretty-man, Cornish and Croft</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forbes and one of his brothers took a series of excellent photographs of the "Opening Run" at the "Cherokee Strip" in Oklahoma in 1889 or 1893.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1889: After the ”Oklahoma Land Rush" at in 1889, Forbes waved good-bye to his cowboy life, and turned to the life of a itinerant photographer until his end of days.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1898-1902: Forbes arrived in California. He made his photo studio headquarters in Santa Ana with his parents and siblings.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. The Life and Times of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pioneer Photographer “Andy”</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1902-1916: Forbes established a photography studio in Bishop California on West Line Street, known strangely enough as "Forbes Studio"!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Prior to 1902. Forbes developed a fondness for Native Americans and their plight, and thus during his "Forbes Studio" era, he was frequently called upon to photograph portraits of them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Conclusion:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What Have We Left Out?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Answer: a whole bunch – we just don’t know how much</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Forbes was an amazing cowboy, and tough as nails</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He was a good friend and neighbor, and member of church and service group</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He earned a place in history, and he was too humble to claim it (so we have to)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Until we meet again…</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><b><a href="http://aaforbes.blogspot.com/">Go To A. A. Forbes Home</a></b></span></span>Tim Waaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17519482487162530986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417541436990122650.post-1419251738635379262014-02-28T11:42:00.001-08:002014-03-17T21:40:41.186-07:00Waag Bros. to give presentation at HSUMD on Tues. March 18, 2014<div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Visit our website on the life of A. A. Forbes by <a href="http://aaforbes.blogspot.com/"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">clicking here</span></b></a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We will be giving a presentation on the life and times of Pioneer Photographer A. A. Forbes at the Historical Society of the Upper Mojave Desert (<a href="http://www.hsumd.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b>HSUMD</b></span></a>) in Ridgecrest, Calif. on Tues March 18, 2014, starting at 7pm. You can read about the presentation by going to the Panamint Springs Resort website (thanks, Abbey!) by <a href="http://www.deathvalley.com/"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">clicking here</span></b></a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;">Who was A. A. Forbes?</span></b> And why should you care? Alexander Forbes was born April 21, 1862, in Ottowa Township, Waukesha County, Wisconsin - son of James McLaren Forbes (from Scotland) and Lucinda Parmelia Sanders (from New York); he was the 5th of 8 children. Forbes grew up in the midwest, and moved frequently with his family. In the 1870's through the early 1890's, he became a stockman on his family's range, building his horsemanship and cowpunching skills, and developing a ruggedness which became a key to his early success as an itinerant photographer.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the late 1880s, Forbes started his professional career as a travelling photographer, working with other skilled pioneer cameramen such as William Pretty-man, George B. Cornish and Thomas Croft. His work took him to Dodge City / Kansas, Stillwater / Oklahoma, Texas, Taos / New Mexico, Santa Fe / New Mexico, northern Arizona, and the Rocky Mountains. He is best known in this timeframe for his Oklahoma Land Rush photography between 1889 and 1993, as well as his photos of everyday cowboy life. In this same time period, he photographed buffalo and cattle herds, as well as gathered a remarkable collection of Native American images. It was during this time that he developed a fondness and an understanding for the plight of the "red man". Native tribes that A. A. photographed included the Cheyenne, Apache, Navajo, Moqui (Hopi), Pueblo and Supai. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eventually, Forbes arrived in Owens Valley around 1900, and opened and operated his "Forbes Studio" on West Line Street between 1902 and 1916. Forbes used a wagon loaded with his photographic outfit (tent, cameras, glass negatives, paper stock, dark room supplies, etc.) and travelled extensively taking and selling his photographs. Landscape photography was his first love, and his prior experience as a stockman allowed him to pack bulky camera equipment and hit the wilderness road in a horse and wagon. When the wagon trail ended, he packed his heavy gear on his back and hiked to the ideal site that optimized the image he was trying to capture. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Common subjects during the "Forbes Studio" era included early studio portraits as well as Native Americans in Owens Valley, Yosemite and elsewhere. These included the Owens Valley Paiute, Petrara, Luiseno, Western Mono, Miwok, and Yokuts tribes. He was a prolific photographer, capturing, the Southern Calif. orange groves, California Missions, early industrial growth in the state, the building of the Los Angeles Aqueduct and much more.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We strive to honor Andrew Alexander's extraordinary contributions made by what on the surface may appear to be an ordinary man. Our research has revealed A. A. Forbes to be a hardworking man of the people, humble to his core, who connected in a spiritual way with the people and places that he photographed. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">--- Goler Wash / Striped Butte Valley,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">--- the Saga of Louise Grantham and her Warm Springs Mining Adventures,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">--- Retracing the route of the 1925 Bob Eichbaum Toll Road</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">--- Retracing the route of the 25-mile Skidoo Pipeline</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tim enjoys a variety of outdoor activities encompassing all that California has to offer. He is a Scuba Instructor, lifelong boater, avid Kayaker, Certified Trail Crew Leader, CPR/First Aid and Oxygen First Aid Instructor, former board member of the Catalina Conservancy, Cheap Jeep crew member (www.oldiesmusicradio.com/media.htm) and a Cultural Site Steward. He enjoys backpacking and hiking in the desert peaks areas in and around the greater Death Valley region. He also contributes to stabilization and restoration processes in this same area. Tim has previously given presentations to the HSUMD on the Saline Valley Salt Tram and the Lonesome Miner Trail (both in the Inyo Mountain Wilderness), and admires HSUMD's accomplishments immensely.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tim has a BS in Math and Computer Science from UCLA, a MS in Math and an MBA from USC. He grew up in southern California, then moved with his family to San Luis Obispo in 1992. Tim began his career as a software developer (15 years), then became a professional Scuba Instructor and owned a graphic design studio for 12 years, and currently manages an employment law firm in San Luis Obispo.</span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Above: Longtime brothers, Tim and Brian Waag (the Waag Bros. aka E. Clampus Waagus), enjoying a stogie on a recent backpacking expedition. Click to enlarge.</span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can read about him in the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/P/PR010.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">clicking here</span></b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. You can read about Pioneer Photographer William Prettyman by </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium/pm.cgi?action=display&login=prettyman"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">clicking here</span></b></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />WILLIAM S. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PRETTYMAN,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">PHOTOGRAPHER </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(1858-1932)</span><br />
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William S. Prettyman is one of Oklahoma's best-known frontier photographers. Born in Maryland on November 12, 1858, he moved to Emporia, Kansas, in 1879. After employment is various jobs, he became a photographer's apprentice in Arkansas City, Kansas. Following his apprenticeship, he opened his own photography gallery there.</span><br />
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After photographing a group of Osage Indians in his studio, he became interested in Indian Territory. Beginning with his first trip in 1883, he made at least one per year over the next decade to photograph the existing landscape and cultures. As a result of these numerous photographic expeditions, Prettyman produced many prints and glass plate negatives that have survived to the present.</span><br />
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He photographed a variety of people and events south of the Kansas state line in present Oklahoma. Some of his best work included the cowboys of the Cherokee Outlet, also known as the Cherokee Strip, and various American Indian groups living in Indian Territory. He was also present for the opening of the Outlet in September 1893. Oklahoma historian Muriel H. Wright noted that his work that day in capturing images of settlers participating in the Run of 1893 was especially valuable because it was a landmark in news photography.</span><br />
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In 1893 Prettyman opened a photography gallery in Blackwell, Oklahoma Territory. In 1905 he sold his business in there and completely abandoned his large collection of glass plate negatives and prints. He moved to California where he established a wholesale drug company. William S. Prettyman died in California in 1932.</span><br />
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SEE ALSO: CHEROKEE OUTLET OPENING, ALEXANDER FORBES, WESTERN HISTORY COLLECTIONS.</span><br />
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BIBLIOGRAPHY: Robert E. Cunningham, A Frontier Photographic Record by W. S. Prettyman (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957). William S. Prettyman Collection, Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma. John R. Lovett © Oklahoma Historical Society</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">William S. Prettyman's ancestors came to America in 1638 to be among the first pioneers. Prettyman's parents lived in Princess Anne county, Maryland, where on November 12, 1858, William was born. William lived his life as the others in his family had lived, on the edge of civilization, a pioneer, a nomad. He longed for adventure.</span><br />
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By the time that the Civil War had ended, William was old enough to enjoy stories of "Indians" and pioneers. Maryland was now populous and was no longer the frontier, but the early residents entertained William with stories of settlement. The land west of the Mississippi river was unsettled. As he grew to manhood, William S. Prettyman urged to travel west and experience life. It was at the age of 21 William stepped off of a train in Emporia, Kansas with only 5 cents in his pocket. He used the money to purchase a postcard to send home and announce his safe arrival. </span><br />
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William tried a number of odd jobs before he arrived at a profession that he enjoyed and that fascinated him. William became the apprentice of a Civil War photographer, I.H. Bonsall, who operated a gallery in Arkansas City, Kansas. This would become his life's work. </span><br />
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Prettyman captured the West as it changed from the frontier to a civilized state. He photographed the evolution of the Native American from a "hostile Indian" to a civilized white replica. He not only traveled into Indian Territory to photograph the natural environment of the different tribes, but members of different tribes approached him in his studio. He photographed all aspects of the West. He photographed old Civil War Veterans in their fading gray or blue uniforms, pioneer women in their sunbonnets, cowboys and outlaws. Prettyman photographed Bob Dalton both alive in his studio and dead in Coffeyville, Kansas. Prettyman also photographed the Boomer leader, David L. Payne who was one of the major instigators to open the Oklahoma Territory and The Cherokee Outlet for Settlement. He was also the official camp photographer at Camp Schofield in 1889. It was Prettyman's cameras that photographed the opening of the Cherokee Outlet on September 16, 1893. </span><br />
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Prettyman was a premier photographer. He photographed history in the making. He captured an element of the "Old West" that would not have been captured without him. He produced photographs that tell the history of the area of South-Central Kansas and North Central Oklahoma. Without these photographs, the history of the area would be lost. Many of Prettyman's original photographs and glass plate negatives are housed at The Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum.</span><br />
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When the West that he knew began to die, Prettyman sold his business, his home and moved to the Far West in 1905. He abandoned his priceless plates in his Arkansas City Gallery, he left behind all his collection. He took only one camera.</span><br />
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It is largely due to his apprentice, George Cornish, that his collection survived. Each time that Cornish moved to larger quarters, he took along the remnants of the work of Prettyman and Bonsall. He converted all negatives into photos and stored the plates with care. It is to his credit that the portion of the collection is today housed at the Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum. "Never did Cornish attempt to borrow the greatness of his teacher, nor claim the authorship of his work. Some he protected by copyright in his own name, but these pictures continued to be identified as Prettyman's work. Prettyman never sought a copyright on any of his pictures. Long after Prettyman left Kansas, Cornish produced an album of photographs made from choice plates in his collection. He did not have to include his former partner's name but he titled the album 'Oklahoma Views, by Prettyman and Cornish'."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I just bought this book (2/9/2014)with images from Mr. Prettyman at Abe's Books: Indian Territory: A Frontier Photographic Record Hardcover, by W. S. Prettyman (Author) , Robert E. Cunningham (Editor), University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma: 1957, for $13.50 (hardcover) including shipping! I'm glad to have found it.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can read more about him in the Cherokee Strip Museum website by <a href="http://www.cherokee-strip-museum.org/NobleCounty/101_Ranch_Cornish.htm"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">clicking here</span></b></a>. </span><br />
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GEORGE CORNISH, PHOTOGRAPHER (???-1946)</span><br />
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Cornish was a protégé and youthful partner of William Prettyman, who produced photographs that tell the history of South-Central Kansas and North Central Oklahoma. Cornish stood with William Prettyman on the platform that hot September day in 1893 when one of history's greatest photographs was made at the opening of the Cherokee Strip. He manned one of the cameras and tried to guess the fraction of a second when a fast-moving scene would reach its dramatic peak. He never revealed which of the three pictures was his. </span><br />
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In 1905 William Prettyman moved to the Far West, abandoning his priceless plates in his Arkansas City Gallery. George preserved the thousands of plates he left behind. Some he protected by copyright in his own name, but these pictures continued to be identified as Prettyman's work. Prettyman never sought a copyright on any of his pictures. </span><br />
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Long after Prettyman left Kansas, Cornish produced an album of photographs made from choice plates in his collection. He did not have to include his former partner's name but he titled the album "Oklahoma Views, by Prettyman and Cornish." <i>[Note: unable to find an references to the existence of this album; would need to contact the Cunningham Collection].</i> After the death of Cornish, the plates became a part of the Cunningham Collection, and now are back in the land of their origin. Cornish continued as a photographer in Arkansas City until his death in 1946.</span><br />
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<i>Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum. http://www.arkcity.org/index.asp?NID=176. January 23, 2007.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Largely to one man goes the credit for preserving what little is left of the thousands of plates made with such precision and perseverance by William Prettyman. This man was George B. Cornish, a protégé and youthful partner of Prettyman's who had a greater respect than his teacher for this monumental record. Cornish stood on the platform that hot September day in 1893 when one of history's greatest photographs was made. He manned one of the cameras and tried to guess the fraction of a second when a fast-moving scene would reach its dramatic peak. He never revealed which of the three pictures was his.</span><br />
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Cornish continued as a photographer in Arkansas City throughout his life. Each time he moved to larger quarters he took along the remnants of the work of Prettyman and Bonsall. To assure their continued existence he made glass positives of many of these plates, which he kept in careful storage. Only when an original negative was broken did he open the store to make another negative. When unbreakable acetate film became available he made negatives on this material.</span><br />
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Never did Cornish attempt to borrow the greatness of his teacher, nor claim the authorship of his work. Some he protected by copyright in his own name, but these pictures continued to be identified as Prettyman's work. Prettyman never sought a copyright on any of his pictures. Long after Prettyman left Kansas, Cornish produced an album of photographs made from choice plates in his collection. He did not have to include his former partner's name but he titled the album "Oklahoma Views, by Prettyman and Cornish." After the death of Cornish, the plates became a part of the Cunningham Collection, and now are back in the land of their origin.</span><br />
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Prior to his death in 1946, Cornish's studio was on West Fifth Avenue. A local attorney now occupies the building.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thomas Croft moved to Arkansas City from Illinois in 1885. His family lived for a while on South H Street in the Sleeth Addition. Later they built a home on North Third Street His studio was near the corner of Summit Street and Central Avenue. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thomas Croft was an associate of William Prettyman, a famous photographer from Arkansas City, Kansas. Croft was present on September 16, 1893 at the opening of the Cherokee Outlet for settlement. Prettyman, Croft, and P.A. Miller set up a platform on the northwest corner of the Chilocco property. On the 20-foot scaffold they sat up three cameras positioned to photograph the opening of the land rush. Prettyman left the other two men to take the photographs while he ran for land in the race. The three men agreed not to tell who actually took which photograph, however Croft's son George has revealed that his father is the photographer who took the famous photo of the opening of the Cherokee Outlet. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to the now famous photo of the horses taking off in the race for land, Croft took two photos before noon. One shows the line up at close range with all modes of transportation awaiting the opening and the other shows an incoming stagecoach.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Croft preferred landscape and outdoor photography. He and George Cornish took many pictures of business buildings and scenes around Arkansas City and published booklet in 1900 called "Arkansas City Illustrated."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thomas Croft is said to have been responsible for the first known photograph of a tornado in action. On May 12, 1896 at 4:00 P.M. he and Albert Potter, from near Maple City, Kansas, were in Oklahoma City doing some retouching while George Cornish watched a storm brew. George told his father that the tornado was coming right at them, so Thomas grabbed his camera and took the photo. The photo was used in many scientific publications among others. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thomas Croft went into the Oklahoma Territory on occasion to photograph the Native Americans. In fact, some are now famous photographs of the Native Americans. Many of his photos have been printed on china and used as souvenirs. His glass negative collection is still in tact in his family's possession.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Notes: </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I ordered a print of this article from AbeBooks.com on 2/7/2014. I did so primarily to get access to the photos in the article, not knowing whether they would be photos by A. A. Forbes or not. I also ordered 2 books by Mary Austin: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Land of Little Rain" and "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Earth Horizon" (her autobiography). Though they were contemporaries in the Owens Valley from approximately 1902 to 1906 (until Mary Austin left Owens Valley in 1906), it is not clear whether they knew each other.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andrew Alexander Forbes (1862-1921) is remembered for his dramatic photographs of the fourth Oklahoma land run in September 1893, when 100,000 homesteaders dashed for free land in the "Cherokee Strip." A collection of his western images includes hundreds of panoramic views, photographs, and postcards made during his years in the Eastern Sierra, a small percentage of which have ever been published. To date, there is somewhat limited biographical data available on Forbes. This study is the first published essay integrating some of Forbes' photographs taken between 1902 and 1916 with the published details of his life. (3)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In addition to their artistic merit, Forbes' photographs and Austin's poems are significant in their focus on the Eastern Sierra. In pursuing their creative interests and livelihoods, Forbes and Austin increased public awareness for this unique landscape and its inhabitants. Forbes' photographs were sold to local residents, businesses, and tourists, while Austin, who as a teacher in the Owens Valley composed nature poetry "to have something for my pupils about the land they lived in," (4) sold her verse to regional magazines such as The Land of Sunshine (renamed Out West in 1902) and to eastern periodicals.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inspired by the dramatic beauty of the Eastern Sierra, Austin and Forbes made lasting contributions to the cultural history of California and the West. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forbes was in his late thirties when he made his way to the Owens Valley, documenting his long, winding route through his camera lens. He was born in Ottawa, Wisconsin, on April 21, 1862, one of eight children, to James McLaren Forbes, of Scotland, and Lucinda Parmelia Sanders Forbes, of New York. (7) In 1867 the Forbes family traveled from Wisconsin to California via the Isthmus of Panama, returning to the Midwest the following year and settling near Sioux City, Iowa. In 1878 they relocated to Bazine, Kansas, where they prospered as cattle ranchers until a grasshopper plague destroyed the feed and a blizzard smothered the cattle in gullies of drifting snow. They came to southern California in 1890, first settling in Riverside County and then in Santa Ana in Orange County.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forbes developed an interest in photography during the late 1870s or early 1880s while he was working on his family's cattle ranch; a relative observed that he inherited his artistic talent from his Mary Austin and Andrew Forbes: poetry, photography, and the Eastern Sierra | California History | Find Articles 1/6/12 11:54 AM http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb1446/is_1_85/ai_n29402069/?tag=content;col1 Page 3 of 4 mother. He began his professional career in the late 1880s as an itinerant photographer, working the western territories with other skilled cameramen such as William Pretty-man, George B. Cornish, and Thomas Croft; he may have learned his trade from one of them. The limited equipment of his day was the large format camera, which was cumbersome to use but produced high-quality prints using 8 x 10 inch negatives on color-blind plates. As an itinerant photographer, Forbes obtained bed and board in ranch bunkhouses and traveled by buckboard across rough terrain, sometimes going by horse or mule to isolated locations. He traveled to Dodge City, Kansas, and Stillwater, Oklahoma, capturing images of railroad construction workers, settlers beside their sod houses, and teachers and Indian children at a mission school. He took pictures of buffalo herds and cattle roundups and created memorable images of weathered cowboys in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles roping their saddle horses, branding steer, and gathering around a chuck wagon. Isolated cowhands paid him fifty cents to a dollar for a souvenir picture. (8)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Traveling through the Southwest, Forbes photographed Native Americans in Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico, and in northern Arizona. He then worked his way along the eastern Rocky Mountains, arriving in the late 1890s at Santa Ana, where he joined his parents and sister. During his four-year stay in southern California, he produced images of communities, farms, and missions. He also traveled north to photograph Death Valley and the Eastern Sierra. In 1902, he settled in the town of Bishop. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1902, Andrew Forbes settled in Bishop, north of Independence. Originally called Bishop Creek, it was named after Samuel Bishop, one of the first cattle ranchers in the valley. Forbes traveled around the region, earning his living by taking pictures of the local inhabitants; towns, farms, ranches, and mines; the Owens Valley; and the surrounding mountains.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the late 1880s, factory-made dry plate negatives, less messy than hand-coated wet plates, were available and by the turn of the century cameras were slightly less bulky. With his "photographic outfit," which included his tent, camera, glass negatives, paper stock, and other equipment in his wagon, Forbes rode from town to town. His tent functioned as a portable makeshift studio. Each summer from mid-June through August, after the winter snow had melted at the lower elevations, he packed his gear and headed for the mountains, seeking the ideal vistas and perfect lighting for his memorable images of the Eastern Sierra. He photographed in the early morning and late afternoon, when the light produced deeper shadows and more dramatic scenes.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Eastern Sierra, especially the sublime vistas of Yosemite Valley, north of the Owens Valley, captured the imagination of many nineteenth-century landscape photographers. Charles L. Weed (1824-1903) produced the first photographic images of Yosemite in 1859, using large ii x 15 inch glass negatives hand-coated with light-sensitive chemicals; his work was followed in 1861 by that of Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916), whose scenic views were produced from mammoth 18 x 22 inch glass negatives. Ansel Adams (1902-1984), the most famous Yosemite photographer, first photographed Yosemite in 1916 with a Kodak Brownie box camera. He later used an 8 x 10 inch view camera to make the negatives for his prints. Forbes' black-and-white images of the Eastern Sierra--generally recognized as the 125-mile-long region extending from Mount Whitney in the south to Yosemite National Park in the north--taken from 1900 to 1916, precede Adams' work; Adams photographed many of the same vistas, including the Owens Valley, Alabama Hills, and Kearsarge Pinnacles. (20)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shooting from across the Owens Valley, Forbes captured the scenic grandeur of snow-covered Mount Humphreys, at 13,986 feet the highest peak in the Sierra National Forest. He photographed the rugged beauty of the Owens River canyon, with white water swirling past granite boulders. His lens focused on a sweeping image of the Owens River, flowing through mountain woodlands to the valley below. He portrayed Bishop Creek Canyon, with tumbling water cascading downward for 6,000 feet, and Bishop Creek, flowing past fir trees on the mountain slopes. Of the eighty lakes within a few miles of the creek, Forbes photographed the lake at the north fork of the creek near Piute Pass and the one at the head of the creek's south fork. Some of Forbes' photographs document the heavy imprint of human activity on this once-unspoiled landscape, revealing severed trees and stumps, abandoned structures, cabins, and well-worn mountain trails.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forbes envisioned the exciting prospect of establishing the first successful photography studio in the Owens Valley. He began his venture sometime between 1902 and 1904, opening his studio in Bishop on West Line Street. (The first photography studio in Yosemite Valley had opened in 1870, and by 1902 several businesses were competing for Yosemite's studio trade.) He ran a weekly advertisement in the Inyo Independent, noting his expertise in "mountain, stock, and Indian views" and in "portrait work in any style." To promote his photography business he offered a free enlargement with every dozen portraits. (21)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although he sold numerous portraits, Forbes' main source of revenue was from scenic prints and picture postcards, which were easily reproduced from glass plate negatives. He maintained an index to his postcards, which noted the subject and date. Postcards, originally called mailing cards and used for advertising, were introduced in 1861. Forbes' picture postcards predate those of Burton Frasher, who began photographing the West, including the region around Bishop, in the 1920s. The originator of Frashers Fotos, black-and-white postcards sold nationwide, Frasher would become the West's leading producer of picture postcards.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A frequent visitor to towns, farms, and ranches, Forbes rode through the basin taking pictures and marketing his prints and postcards. His photographs captured the transition of small, dusty towns into thriving communities with picket-fenced, wood-framed houses; streets lined with poplars; and increasing numbers of people putting down roots in the valley soil. On October 17, 1902, the Inyo Independent announced that Forbes was in Independence, "so give him a call soon." A week later, he was doing a "rushing business" in pictures. In November he was photographing in Lone Pine and returned to Independence in December. In February 1903, the newspaper noted, he was in Big Pine with his tent, where he would remain for a few weeks. The following May he was back in Independence. He visited again in November and stayed a week. In early December, he "returned to Bishop," but "took quite a number of beautiful views of the Sierra Nevadas while here which he will have finished up soon." (22)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forbes created an illustrated catalog to market his photographs. Orders, "unless otherwise specified," were filled in black and white. Photographs were also available in "cepia [sic], green and firelight tones." His 10-inch-wide panoramas averaged seventy-five cents per foot. His breathtaking 32-foot panorama of the Sierra Nevada in thirteen sections was listed at $15.00. Other panoramic views of the Sierra cost between $1.75 and $4.00. Black-and-white 8 x 10 inch photographs sold for five cents. Forbes also sold lantern slides, which could be projected onto a large screen, and stereo cards, which provided three-dimensional images. His catalog was arranged by subject, among them clouds and lightning, mountains, desert, cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. There was also a section on the different groups of Indians. He sold photographs of picturesque locales, such as the Keeler depot east of Owens Lake. Expanding his photography trips, he began marketing a broader range of landscape photography, including scenes of Mammoth and Yosemite. In addition to his photographs, he rented cameras and sold them, along with photographic supplies, to local residents and tourists who stopped by his Bishop studio. (23)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like tourists to the region, Forbes was drawn to the 12,618-foot Kearsarge Peak at the edge of the Owens Valley, and he photographed it, snow-covered, with the little town of Independence in the foreground. Kearsarge Pass was originally a Paiute trading route. When gold and silver were discovered in 1864, miners flocked to the mountain. It became a successful mining district until an avalanche destroyed it in 1867. There is a string of alpine lakes in Kearsarge, resting in granite basins. Forbes photographed small, picturesque Kearsarge Lake above Onion Valley and Sunset Lake near Kearsarge Pass. Austin noted how most lakes in the Eastern Sierra are green, not blue. As she observed, "The lake is the eye of the mountain, jade green, placid, unwinking, also unfathomable." (26)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While photographing in the southern part of the valley, Forbes stayed in Independence at the Norman House on the corner of Edwards and Market streets, down the block from Austin's house. It was a first-class hotel with thirty bedrooms, where one could board by the day, week, or month. The hotel's register indicates that visitors frequently came to Independence from Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Reno. Hundreds of tourists a year visited the region, arriving, increasingly, from as far away as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. (27)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forbes photographed one of Inyo's most popular tourist sites, Winnedumah Paiute Monument, an 80-foot granite monolith in the White-Inyo Mountains, immortalized in a Native American legend. In one version of the tale, Winnedumah, a medicine man, travels into the mountains to find his brother, Tinemaha, who has been slain in a battle with the Shoshones. The god Taupee turns Winnedumah into a granite spire to watch over the Paiute tribe. Like Forbes, Austin recognized the popular appeal of the striking granite formation, which could be seen from Kearsarge Pass. She appropriated the legend for her poem "Winnedumah," which recounts the medicine man's transformation into "the granite boulder high above the white-pine wood." (28)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1900, approximately one thousand Native Americans lived in the Owens Valley. The influx of ranchers and homesteaders had destroyed half their population and their original way of life. "The Paiutes," Austin wrote, "had made their last stand at the border of the Bitter Lake" in the 1860s when thirty-five Indians were killed or driven into Owens Lake to drown. (29) In 1902, a federal grant created reservation land for Indian settlement at Independence Camp. Paiute men worked on local farms and ranches; women found jobs as household help in local homes. The children attended the Indian schools in the valley. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In response to the relegation of the Indians to reservations and the destruction of their way of life, there was a growing movement to preserve what remained of Native American culture. Some Americans held a romantic image of Indians living in harmony with nature. But, Austin observed, in the Owens Valley "the clans who owned the earth, [had] fallen into the deplorable condition of hangers-on." Burdened with household chores and worries about her disabled daughter, Austin employed a Paiute housekeeper and befriended the local Indian women. She attended some of the Paiute ceremonies and celebrations and recorded their songs with a home phonograph using wax cylinders. Visiting their camps, she watched as Paiute women dug wild hyacinth roots, gathered seeds, and crafted their willow baskets. She listened to their "folk tales, famine tales, love and longsuffering," and wove their words into her stories and poetry. (30) In "The Song-Makers," she penned one of her "re-expressions" of Native American "song".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forbes was equally attracted to the native culture and photographed the Paiute encampments in the valley. The houses, "brown wickiups in the chaparral," as Austin called them, had changed little over time; only a few Owens Valley Indians owned their own land and worked their own farms. Forbes, who had photographed a wide range of Native American groups as he traveled across the country, made friends with the local Indians who "would gather to sit and socialize on the edge of the boardwalk in front of his studio." In his portrait work he created numerous artistic poses of Paiute women in their maternal role. The recurrent image of a mother and child, thought-provoking in the universality of its underlying themes, proved a popular subject. Forbes also photographed Paiute women with their beautiful willow baskets decorated with intricate patterns; Austin described one as "a design in colored bark of the procession plumed crests of the valley quail." (32) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When his horse or mule reached the end of a trail during his forays into the mountains, Forbes carried his photographic equipment on his back to get the scenic views he wanted. On mountain summits, he began using a large, panoramic Circuit camera, rotating on a turntable mounted on a tripod. He created scenic panoramas described by one author as "technical tours de ford' and experimented with "aerial photography by suspending the camera from a series of large kites." (33) He photographed hundreds of different panoramic scenes of the mountains and valley. One huge panorama, showing 250 miles of the Sierra Nevada, measured 32 feet. (34)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Packing into the mountains, Forbes photographed Lone Pine Lake, elevation 9,940 feet, with a sunlit cloud overhead. As Austin observed, in the mountains "the clouds came walking on the floor of heaven, flat and pearly gray beneath, rounded and pearly white above." Forbes also photographed the waterfalls on Lone Pine Creek with their "incessant white and tumbling waters." A mountain range without streams, Austin wrote, is "forsaken of most things but beauty and madness and death and God." (35)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As part of his documentation for Eaton, Forbes photographed Cottonwood Creek, named for the cottonwood trees, which leads to the Cottonwood Lakes, a string of thirteen lakes northwest of Olancha. But it is unlikely that these or any other "camping places" were of much interest to Eaton; Forbes may have been taken in by Eaton's disingenuous explanation for his curiosity about the mountain streams.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forbes continued to participate in community activities and organizations, such as the local theater group. In 1909, he married Mary Rozette Prutsman, who helped run his photography business, often accompanying him on his monthlong summer pack trips into the mountains. They had one son, J. McLaren Forbes, born in 1910. But over time Forbes became discouraged by the changes in the valley wrought by the construction of the aqueduct. In 1916, three years after the aqueduct was completed, he sold his Bishop house and studio and moved to Lompoc, California, where he died of a heart attack on March 21, 1921.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Forbes' photographs, the scenic pageantry of the forests enhances majestic mountain views. The trees in the Eastern Sierra include cottonwood, quaking aspen, white fir, and red fir, and seven species of pine grow in the mountains above Independence. Austin captured a telling detail of the forest when she wrote about "pine trees [that] creak although there is no wind." In another passage, she described the mournful sound of a Jeffrey pine "sighing its soul away upon the wind."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(1) Mary Austin, The Land of Little Rain (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1903), 205; Mary Austin, Earth Horizon (New York: The Literary Guild, 1932), 233.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(2) Ann H. Zwinger, ed., Mary Austin and John Muir: Writing the Western Landscape (Boston: Beacon Press, 1994), ix-x. The Mary Austin Collection at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California, contains 5,500 pieces by and about Austin. Among them is a 5 x 9 inch red and black composition notebook with lined paper, of the type students used at the turn of the century. On the front appears the inscription, "This book was used by me in Inyo. Poems being copied in it as they were written. M.A." (AU 381) Some of the twenty-six poems in the notebook have never appeared in print. The Mary Austin Collection also includes other published and unpublished poems from this period that complement Austin's depictions of the Eastern Sierra in The Land of Little Rain and in her autobiography, Earth Horizon. In addition, microfilm issues of the Eastern Sierra newspaper of the period, the Inyo Independent, located at the Inyo County Library in Independence, contain new information about Austin's life.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(3) See Sheldon Russell, Dreams to Dust: A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006), William Willard Howard, "The Rush to Oklahoma," Harper's Weekly 33 (May 18, 1889): 391-94, and Seth K. Humphrey, Following the Prairie Frontier (Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1931). Some of Forbes' images of the Cherokee Strip Land Run are housed in the Robert E. Cunningham Oklahoma History Collection at the Donald C. & Elizabeth M. Dickinson Research Center, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are 2,800 negatives of western subjects in the Forbes Collection at the Seaver Center for Western History Research at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. One thousand of them are glass plate negatives, including Forbes' 6 x 8 inch and 8 x 10 inch glass negatives of the Eastern Sierra; 400 are Forbes' panoramic views; and there are hundreds of photographs and postcards. All of Forbes' panoramas, prints, postcards, and negatives may total as many as 5,000 images, but there is a significant amount of duplication. Although the Seaver Center has processed prints of some of the negatives, less than 1 percent of the photographs in the Forbes collection have been published.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is no published biography on Forbes. The most complete biographical information about Forbes is in a dissertation by Sharon E. Dean, "Vision, Social Change, and the American West: The Photographs of Andrew A. Forbes (1862-1921)," New School University, 2002.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(4) Mary Austin, The Children Sing in the Far West (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928), vii.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(6) Sue Irwin, California's Eastern Sierra: A Visitor's Guide (Los Olivos, CA: Cachuma Press, 1992), 38-39, 41-42.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(7) Dean, "Vision, Social Change, and the American West," 61. Dean notes Forbes' date of birth as April 21, 1862 as does Ion Bosak, "Andrew A. Forbes--Photographs of the Owens Valley Paiute," The Journal of California Anthropology 2, no. 1 (Summer 1975): 38-59. "A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Forbes who came to America in 1840," located in the Andrew A. Forbes' file at the Eastern California Museum (unpublished, no date), notes the date as April 18, 1862. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(8) "A Genealogy of the Descendants of John Forbes," 9; the photographer I. H. Bonsall had a studio in Arkansas City, Kansas, near the Oklahoma border; Dean, "Vision, Social Change, and the American West," 62; "Forbes, Andrew Alexander 1862-1921," The Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association website, http://www. tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online, accessed September 24, 2007.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(9) Austin, Earth Horizon, 231.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(10) Austin, Earth Horizon, 234; The Land of Little Rain, 205. Austin spells the Paiute name for Lone Pine Mountain "Opopago" in Earth Horizon and "Oppapago" in The Land of Little Rain.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(11) Austin, The Land of Little Rain, 257.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(12) The 1894 poem "The Coming of the Snow" was revised and copied into Austin's composition notebook as "Sierra Snows." It was published as "Snow" in The Children Sing in the Far West, 47- 49.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(13) Austin, The Land of Little Rain, 159, 158, 146, 148.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(14) "A Twilight Hill" was revised for publication in The Land of Sunshine 14, no. 3 (March 1901): 181. It also appeared in Austin's composition notebook.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(15) Esther Lanigan Stineman, Mary Austin: Song of a Maverick (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), 64.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(16) Austin, Earth Horizon, 112-13; The Land of Little Rain, 219.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(17) "Blue-Eyed Grass," written in 1904, was published in The Children Sing in the Far West, 86. Blue-Eyed Grass actually is not a grass, but its stalks resemble strands of grass with tiny blue buds at the tips. White yarrow has clusters of white flowers. There are many varieties of milkweed, some with creamy-white and maroon blossoms. Thousands of monarch butterflies come to the Eastern Sierra each year to deposit their eggs under the leaves.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(18) Austin, Earth Horizon, 284.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(19) Karen S. Langlois, "Mary Austin and Houghton Mifflin Company: A Case Study in the Marketing of a Western Writer," Western American Literature 23, no. 1 (May 1988): 41.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(20) Examples of Yosemite images by Charles L. Weed and Carleton E. Watkins are in the Early Landscape Photography of the American West collection at the New York Public Library.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(21) Kate Nearpass Ogden, "Sublime Vistas and Scenic Backdrops: Nineteenth-Century Painters and Photographers at Yosemite, California History 69, no. 2 (Summer 1990), 147; Inyo Independent, vol. 36, no. 8 (29 July 1904) and vol. 37, no. 36 (9 February 1906).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(22) Inyo Independent, vol. 34, no. 19 (17 Octo ber 1902); vol. 34, no. 20 (24 October 1902); vol. 34, no. 22 (7 November 1902); vol. 34, no. 37 (20 February 1903); vol. 34 no. 47 (1 May 1903); vol. 35, no. 23 (13 November 1903); and vol. 35, no. 26 (4 December 1903).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(23) "Illustrated Catalog of Forbes Studio," Andrew A. Forbes Collection (n.d.), Seaver Center for Western History Research.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(24) Austin, Earth Horizon, 296.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(25) "We'll Get Our Share," Inyo Independent, vol. 31, no. 39 (9 March 1900).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(26) Austin, The Land of Little Rain, 207.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(27) Inyo Independent, vol. 33, no. 49 (16 May 1902) and vol. 34, no. 20 (24 October 1902).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(28) Austin, The Children Sing in the Far West, 25.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(29) Harry W. Lawton, Philip J. Wilke, Mary DeDecker, and William M. Mason, "Agriculture Among the Paiute of Owens Valley," Journal of California Anthropology 3, no. 1 (1976): 13-50, cited in Sharon E. Dean, Peggy S. Ratcheson, Judith W. Finger, Ellen F. Daus with Craig D. Bates, Weaving a Legacy: Indian Baskets & the People of Owens Valley, California (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004), 1; Austin, The Land of Little Rain, 163.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(30) Austin, The Land of Little Rain, 174, 177; Karen S. Langlois, "A Fresh Voice from the West: Mary Austin, California, and American Literary Magazines," California History 69, no. 1 (Spring 1990), 28-32.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(31) Mary Austin, "The Song-Makers," North American Review 194 (August 1911): 239-47. In the poem, according to Austin, "Waban" is the Paiute word for "mountain."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(32) Austin, Earth Horizon, 246; Bosak, "Andrew A. Forbes," 42; Austin, The Land of Little Rain, 168.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(33) Bosak, "Andrew A. Forbes," 41. (34) In 2002, two of Forbes' panoramic photographs were put up at auction; the Fred Holabird Americana's Reno Coin & Stamp Show Auction #13, June 14-15, 2002. One, an unsigned panorama of the Bishop area circa 1910, shows cowboys herding cattle on a ranch against a backdrop of the snowcapped Sierra Nevada. At the right is the town of Bishop; at the left is Lone Pine. The view is to the west-southwest. The other, a signed panorama of the Bishop area circa 1910, shows a herd of grazing sheep on a ranch with Bishop and the White Mountains in the background. It was taken west of Bishop with Boundary Peak, the highest mountain in Nevada (elevation 14,242 feet), at the left and Westgard Pass at the right. In addition, three picture postcards were put up at auction at the</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fred Holabird Americana's Auction #15 on September 13, 2002.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(35) Austin, The Land of Little Rain, 258, 205, 184.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(36) Inyo Independent, vol. 36, no. 6 (15 July 1904) and vol. 36, no. 8 (29 July 1904).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(37) Mary Austin to Eve Lummis, 27 July [1905], University of Arizona, Tucson Special Collections Library; Austin, The Land of Little Rain, 186-87, 212.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(38) Mary Austin Collection, AU 57.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(39) Austin, Earth Horizon, 235.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(40) Austin, The Land of Little Rain, 157; Earth Horizon, 250.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(41) Austin, The Children Sing in the Far West, 62-65. In the poem, "Southland" refers not to</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">southern California, but to the Owens Valley. Austin observed that "The carrion crow is larger and glossier than the common crow. Both he and the buzzard will hang on the trail of a flock or a herd for days, on the chance of one falling out to die" (Austin, The Children Sing in the Far West, 179).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(42) "Hallowe'en Party," Inyo Independent, vol. 35, no. 22 (6 November 1903).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(43) Inyo Register (20 July 1905) and Inyo Independent, vol. 37, no. 7 (21 July 1905), cited in Dean, "Vision, Social Change, and the American West," 218. Following decades of litigation, in December 2006 Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa stood at the now bone-dry banks of the Owens River as water flowed into the river, part of a court-mandated river and wetland restoration project.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(44) For further discussion of the events leading up to and following the building of the aqueduct, see Catherine Mulholland, William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000); R. A. Sauder, The Lost Frontier: Water Diversion in the Growth and Destruction of Owens Valley Agriculture (Tucson: The University of Arizona, 1994); William L. Kahrl, Water and Power: The Conflict over Los Angeles' Water Supply in the Owens Valley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982); John Walton, Western Times and Water Wars (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(45) Inyo Register (3 August 1905); Dean, "Vision, Social Change, and the American West," 220-21. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(46) Austin, Earth Horizon, 307.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(47) Kahrl, Water and Power, 131. For further discussion of Mary and Wallace Austin's protest of the Los Angeles Aqueduct Project, see Abraham Hoffman, Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1981).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(48) Helen McKnight Doyle, Mary Austin: Woman of Genius (New York: Gotham House, 1939), 218.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(49) Wallace S. Austin to George C. Pardee, 24 September 1905, National Archives, Reclamation Service, General File 1902-1919, Record Group 115, File 63-B, "Correspondence re Right of Way Applications in Owens River Valley," quoted in Kahrl, Water and Power, 134.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(50) Inyo Independent, vol. 37, no. 41 (16 March 1906).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(51) Kahrl, Water and Power, 146.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(52) Inyo Independent, vol. 37, no. 36 (9 February 1906).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(53) From "Snow," in Austin, The Children Sing in the Far West, 47-49. In the poem, "hoar pine" refers to a pine that is covered with silvery, frozen dew or "hoarfrost." The tamarack is a lodgepole pine, and spruce and mountain hemlock are also trees that grow in the Eastern Sierra.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">KAREN S. LANGLOIS</span></b> is Professor of Liberal Studies at California State Polytechnic University, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pomona. She specializes in American literary and cultural history. Her previous articles on Mary Austin have appeared in Huntington Library Quarterly, Western American Literature, Theatre History, California History, and the Journal of American Culture. She received a PhD in American History from Claremont Graduate University.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.mindat.org/article.php/1164/A+Geological+Chance+Encounter%3A+James+McLaren+Forbes</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recently came across two envelopes (see figures 1 and 2) from two different mining companies in the Philippines that were from a “J.M. Forbes”, posted more than seventy (70) years ago about nine (9) months apart in 1939. As is my custom, finding out more about the writer, addressee and the companies involved usually provides some insight into times, personalities and places I can never experience firsthand. What made these two envelopes even more interesting was that both still retained their contents, an unexpected bonus which provided additional clues to the answers I sought. The writer, J.M. Forbes, signed his letters as “Laren”. They were addressed to his mother, Mary R. (Rozette) Forbes in Covina, California. </span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Figure 1 Above: A Paracale-Gumaus Consolidated Mining Company envelope from J.M. Forbes to his mother in California, postmarked January 24, 1939, via Clipper (air mail). Author’s collection and image.</span></i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Figure 2 Above: A North Camarines Gold Mining Company envelope from J.M. Forbes to Mary R. Forbes in California, dated Septmeber 9, 1939, also via Clipper (Trans Pacific Airmail). Author’s collection and image.</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By way of period background, the Philippines were ceded to the United States by Spain in 1898, along with control over Cuba, Puerto Rico and Guam. The Philippines were subsequently given their independence in 1935, subject to a transition period as a U.S. Commonwealth that was to last until 1946. Note that both envelopes in figures 1 and 2 were franked with the country’s early independence stamps of 1935, subsequently overprinted with “Commonwealth” that accurately reflected both the time and political standing of the country. Comprised of some 7,100 islands and islets in the Malay Archipelago, formal geological study of the Philippines by the USGS began immediately after the Spanish-American war in 1898. In my archive of dusty books, I located George F. Becker’s Report on the Geology of the Philippine Islands, part of the USGS Twenty-First Annual Report of 1899-1900 – Part III. In his report, Becker summarized the findings of coal, copper, gold, argentiferous lead, iron and other ores, as well as the geological features and fossils of the Archipelago.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Becker’s work noted some sixteen (16) villages on the island of Luzon that had moderate quantities of gold, among them Paracale in the Camarines Norte district. And it was here that J. McLaren Forbes toiled for the Paracale-Gumaus Consolidated Mining Company, and later for the North Camarines Gold Mining Company noted in figures 1 and 2. He arrived in the Philippines several years earlier in 1936, fresh from a mining job in Superior, Arizona.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a typed, onion skin letter dated January 5, 1939, J. McLaren Forbes (hereafter “Laren”) answers his mother’s last two or three letters, evidencing the lengthy time and distance difficulties of communication between the United States and its Philippine Commonwealth back then. An excerpt of the letter follows:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am using the paper you sent me...and I am glad to hear my boots and pick are on the way. I may need them. I can get movie film over here at about the same price you pay, so you need not send anymore....So you are wondering about my looking for a new job. It arrived this afternoon if I want it. It is a geological job for the International Engineering Corporation, one of the Soriano Companies. Will pay P500.00 a month, and only cost me P75.00 a month for chow instead of P90.00. I think I shall take it. I don’t expect to ever get more than P500.00 from Neilson, and besides, Harshman is coming back in six months. I am afraid that if I take too much interest in mill work, I shall like it better than geology. Harshman will finish at Arizona. All he has to do is get up on the platform and receive his doctors degree. No, My Dear, the Mill Super job did not bring an increase in wages. I am supposed to get a fifty peso increase at the end of three months. I doubt if they remember it, however. I hope to get out of her by the 20th or sooner, as soon as they can get someone to take over.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Laren’s wages as mill superintendant, 500 pesos a month, were equivalent to about US$250 at the time, nearly $3800 in today’s dollars had the peso remained stable. The peso exchange rate was fixed by an act of Congress in 1903 that pegged it a half the value of a U.S. dollar. It remained at that rate until 1949. In current dollars and exchange rates, a Philippine peso is worth a little over two cents to the dollar! In a subsequent handwritten letter on Paracale-Gumas letterhead, Laren further writes to his mother:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I ‘m still at Gumaus. I’ll have to leave on the 1st. whether they have found a new man or not. My boots came. They are very fine, and they fit. The only joker is they are not made of waterproof leather as my others were. Kindly see if you can get me two cans of waterproofing called Vitrol. If you can’t get it in Covina, send for a can of the liquid and a can of the paste shown in the enclosed ad. (see figure 3-Editor)....I think I have made some good friends while I have been here. I never expect to find a more congenial group to work with. If it was not for this #$%@$! geology, I’d stay here.</span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Figure 3 above: An early Outdoor Life ad sent by J. McLaren Forbes in the Philippines to his mother in Covina, California in 1939, in the hopes of getting waterproofing for his new boots. Author’s collection and image.</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nine months later, Laren is now working for the North Camarines Gold Mining Company. He discusses the loss of a light meter, asks his mother how his photographs through the binoculars came out, and makes other observations about the end of his film rolls being spoiled by his “Scotch Instinct” to get the most for his money by trying to use every last bit of each roll, the ends subsequently exposed to light during development. He further remarks that it is fine that his mother is on the trail of a “mule bulletin”. The frequent photography references throughout his letters, and the unfathomable “mule bulletin” remark, open a new avenue of discovery for me, and I subsequently learn a great deal more about Laren’s father, the rather famous photographer, Andrew A. Forbes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The senior Forbes operated a photo studio, and much of his biographical details can be found in The Journal of California Anthropology (Summer 1975). Details about the senior Forbes were provided by his wife (Laren’ mother) and son, our J. McLaren Forbes. Born in 1862, A.A. Forbes took an early interest in photography, and in 1889, “took historical photos of the "Opening Run" event where 20,000 homesteaders races across the Oklahoma border into "Indian Territory" in a wild dash for free land. These Opening Run photos are now at the University of Oklahoma, and marked a turn in his career. He would be a professional photographer from then on.” (per JCAS as above). After working as an itinerant photographer and amassing many images of local life, Forbes sets up his studio in Bishop, California circa1902. The shop closes in 1916 due to poor health, and A.A. Forbes dies in 1921. His wife apparently continues to run the photo studio after his death, and Laren’s interest in photography is therefore explained. (Mrs. Forbes was still producing items such as calendars and photo postcards as late as 1955 that also used her son’s images as well, and some can occasionally be found on eBay and elsewhere today.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Among A.A. Forbes’ many images were pictures of the salt tramway over the Inyo Mountains, part of the historic operation from the Trepier Mines. [author's note: not accurate, of course. The Trepier Mine had nothing to do with the Saline Valley Salt Tram, as far as we know]. The tramway, a complex engineering feat in itself, was featured in the American Society of Civil Engineering publication of May, 1917. Some images of the mule trails along the tramway were included in Forbes’ Illustrated Catalog of Forbes Studio, Bishop, Inyo County, California, with the catalog published circa 1914 containing his works from the studio between 1902 and 1914. Today, Forbes’ extensive library of negatives are housed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, and the Saline Valley Salt Tram is on the National Register of Historic Places. One of Forbes’ many images of the mining operations shows mules carting salt over the zig-zag path along Inyo Mountains (see Figure 4). [Nope: not what Figure 4 shows. We believe that Figure 4 shows Salt being mule-teamed out of Saline Valley via North Pass some time between 1903 and 1909].</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Figure 4: An early A.A. Forbes image of mules hauling salt over the Inyo Mountains in California. Eastern Sierra Museum, Independence, California</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And as for the “mule bulletin” reference in Laren’s letter, it is still somewhat of a mystery. It was clear that he read Outdoor Life (reference figure 3) and may have been a Boy Scout as a youth as well. The July, 1926 issue of Boys Life, the Boy Scouts of America publication that still exits today, makes reference to a new publication (Vol.1, No. 1) called the Mule Bulletin, produced by a group of Missouri Lone Scouts. Perhaps the bulletin contained images or articles of interest for Mrs. Forbes and Laren, or perhaps even a place to publish their pictures, but it has turned into a dead end for the moment. Perhaps a reader can shed more light on this little mystery.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, and after the Commonwealth’s occupation until the end of World War II, the whereabouts and geological career of J. McLaren Forbes are blank spaces. The companies he worked for, however, continued to operate after the war, and the Paracale-Gumaus Consolidated Mining Company was operating at least through 2009. (Their involvement in a labor dispute in the late 1950s lead to a well-documented decision by the Supreme Court of the Republic of the Philippines in 1963.) Modern stock certificates from the company are also seen for sale on occasion.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An interesting anomaly turned up during this brief investigation of the Paracale mining operation, and meteorite and tektite dealers have noted that the region is the primary producer of Philippine tektites on the market! One dealer (www.tektites.co.uk) writes:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paracale is a gold mining area. The tektites are found as a by-product in the hunt for gold. I am told that all the tektites come from a very close proximity to Paracale and not further afield. I am sure tektites are elsewhere, but the lack of mining means they are not found. According to one contact, the rock (which I understand to be gravels, but really a bit of a mixture and clay-rich in places) is dug out of alluvial deposits. The tektites are then found. The deposits are also worked in the sea at depths I understand to be 15-25ft.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paracale appears to be the most prolific of tektite sites in the Philippines. Most the Philippinites on the market will have come from this area. It is home to the large Bikolite tektites first found by van Eek and described by Beyer. There is also an abundance of smaller specimens, including perfect biscuits coming from this region. Most have very prominent U-grooves. U-grooves formed by the chemical etching, in the soil, of paper-thin thermal expansion cracks, formed as the tektite re-entered the atmosphere. The U-grooves occur on the anterior and the smooth side is the posterior. Beyond about 90g Biscuits give way to breadcrusts. These are commonly grooved all over and spherical. Above about 350g (gradational) the tektites found are always smooth spheres. Shells, shed from these smooth spheres are also found. It is believed that the largest specimens are the most thermodynamically unstable. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Despite his continuing interest and apparent competence with the camera, Laren continued to work as a consulting geologist. In Fred E. Johnson’s book Hardrock, he notes that Forbes was a close college friend, and apparently their careers crossed several times, as did that of Laren and other mineral notables. Forbes resigned from the Geochemical Society in 1966 for unknown reasons, perhaps the passing of his mother and a move to Nevada, and other notable members of the Society at the time were Michael Fleischer (of Glossary fame), Linus Pauling, and R. M., Denning, all mineral namees as well.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The archives of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology contain a number of J. McLaren Forbes’ letters during his long career as a consulting geologist, then operating out of several different addresses in Reno, Nevada (both Island Avenue and Mueller Drive addresses were observed from the mid-1960s to late 1970s.) A February, 1966 letter to Hatfield Goudey was an interesting one that I encountered. Goudey was a well known mineral dealer, micromount specialist and mineral namee for goudeyite, and he advertised in various hobby magazines from about 1940 to 1984 as a seller of rare minerals (see figure 5). He died in 1985.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Figure 5: One of Hatfield Goudey’s classy micromount boxes, typical of his offerings in the 1960’s. Author’s collection and image.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the time of Forbes’ letter to him, Goudey was then working as an economic geologist for American Exploration and Mining Co., based in San Francisco. In that letter, Forbes provided Goudey with an assessment of the claims of the Monitor Mining Company in the Robinson Mining District of White Pine County, Nevada. Numerous other studies were conducted by Forbes for a large number of mining companies, attorneys and fellow geologists in Nevada and California, and his professional documents and paper trail extended at least into1982. His whereabouts and eventual disposition after this date are unknown, and additional reader information is solicited! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is certainly more to the J.M. Forbes story, and additional aspects of his life and adventures, like those of many field geologists and mineralogists of past generations, would make for interesting reading.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Andrew Alexander Forbes</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A. A. Forbes created a catalog of his works. We know for sure that this catalog is contained in the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. An additional 2 copies (if there ever was more than one) might exist at:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(1) University of California, Riverside </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">William Marvin Mason:</span></b> Mr. Mason was the curator of History at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. He was also a contributing editor to The Journal of California Anthropology. He collected this representative assortment of photographs by A. A. Forbes of Owens Valley Paiutes that are found in this article.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">LA Natural History Museum's Description of the Forbes Collection (P-4): </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">P-4 Andrew Alexander Forbes (1862-1921) Collection, ca. 1890-1915 Photographs, negatives. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10 linear feet (Boxes: letter, ½ letter, 4 ov). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inyo County and eastern California including landscapes; portraits of the Owens Valley Paiute tribes. First resident photographer in the Owens Valley, Forbes photographed primarily Paiute Indians and the eastern California scenery. He maintained a commercial studio in Bishop from 1902 to 1916. Forbes also made panoramic murals and scenic calendars. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Arranged numerically.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">LA Natural History Museum's Description of the Forbes Collection (P-248): </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">P-247 Andrew Alexander Forbes (1862-1921) Oklahoma Collection, ca. 1889. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.2 linear feet (Boxes: ½ letter) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photographs. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fourteen mounted prints (on 13 mounts) of Oklahoma scenes: Sac and Fox Indians, railroad bridge construction, and others, ca. 1889. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Description of Collection: </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photographs (1889-1916): Glass and film photonegatives (mostly 5" x 8" and 5" x 7", + rolled film negatives of various sizes), black and white photoprints (mostly 8" x 10" and 5" x 7", + rolled prints), hand-colored photoprints (8" x 10"), picture postcards, and miscellaneous novelty items (calendars, calling cards.) Subjects include Northern Californian mountain and desert scenes; High Sierra Nevada region, Owens Valley, Saline Valley, Yosemite; communities of Bodie and Bishop; Southwest Indians and their settlements, particularly Paiutes and Hopi; scenes of Oklahoma and Arizona</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Doc02:</span></b> Forbes created an illustrated catalog to market his photographs. Orders, "unless otherwise specified," were filled in black and white. Photographs were also available in "cepia [sic], green and firelight tones." His 10-inch-wide panoramas averaged seventy-five cents per foot. His breathtaking 32-foot panorama of the Sierra Nevada in thirteen sections was listed at $15.00. Other panoramic views of the Sierra cost between $1.75 and $4.00. Black-and-white 8 x 10 inch photographs sold for five cents. His catalog was arranged by subject, among them clouds and lightning, mountains, desert, cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. There was also a section on the different groups of Indians.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are 2,800 negatives of western subjects in the Forbes Collection at the Seaver Center for Western History Research at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. One thousand of them are glass plate negatives, including Forbes' 6 x 8 inch and 8 x 10 inch glass negatives of the Eastern Sierra; 400 are Forbes' panoramic views; and there are hundreds of photographs and postcards. All of Forbes' panoramas, prints, postcards, and negatives may total as many as 5,000 images, but there is a significant amount of duplication. Although the Seaver Center has processed prints of some of the negatives, less than 1 percent of the photographs in the Forbes collection have been published.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Publication:</span></b> The Journal of California Anthropology - Summer 1975 - page 38-59</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Article Title:</span></b> Andrew A. Forbes - Photographs of the Owens Valley Paiute</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Author: Jon Bosak, Photography Editor</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Read This Article Online: </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right now, this entire article can be found online by clicking <a href="http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/7k3917hd#page-1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><b>here</b></span></a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">Synopsis</span></b>: This article presents 16 previously unpublished photographs of the Owens Valley Paiute taken some time between 1903 and 1916 (the years that A. A. Forbes "Forbes Studio" was in business in Bishop, Calif.). In the copy of this publication that we have, the images are of poor quality, but in the original print run, I'm sure they are much higher quality. The images are annotated with substantial comments indicating various features that give high historical value to the photos. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Included in the article is a brief but thorough biography of Forbes. Anthropologists consider Forbes photos of Paiutes to be relatively unstaged for that era, and thus represent a primary source of study for these people. It is not clear what the sources are for both the photos and the facts presented in this article.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">William Marvin Mason:</span></b> Mr. Mason was the curator of History at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. He was also a contributing editor to The Journal of California Anthropology. He collected this representative assortment of photographs by A. A. Forbes of Owens Valley Paiutes that are found in this article.</span><br />
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<i>Above: Unpublished early photo of Forbes Family. Date unknown. Photo courtesy of Bailly / Tureson.</i><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andrew Alexander Forbes was born April 21, 1862, in Ottowa Township, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States of America.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Son of James McLaren Forbes (from Scotland) and Lucinda Parmelia Sanders (from New York); he was the 5th of 8 children.</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"><i>Above: Rare unpublished early photo of A. A. Forbes as a baby, probably in 1863. Shown with his father, James, at left, and mother, Lucinda at right. Date unknown. Photo courtesy of Bailly / Tureson.</i></span></span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1867: Forbes Family travelled from Wisconsin to California via the Isthmus Canal.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1868: Forbes Family returned to the midwest in 1868 to settle near Sioux City, Iowa.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1878: Forbes Family moved to Bazine, Ness County, Kansas.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1878-1890: Forbes Family bought range land in Kansas and became stockmen. Forbes helped his family on the range land as a stockman on their cattle ranch. Concurrently, he took up photography in the late 1870s or early 1880s. Big blizzards in 1888 and 1890 smothered their cattle in gullies of drifting snow, and a grasshopper plague destroyed their livestock feed.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Late 1880s: Forbes started his professional career as an itinerant photographer, working with other skilled cameramen such as William Pretty-man, George B. Cornish and Thomas Croft; he may have learned his trade from them. His work took him to Dodge City / Kansas, Stillwater / Oklahoma, Texas, Taos / New Mexico, Santa Fe / New Mexico, northern Arizona, Rocky Mountains.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4/22/1889 or September 1893 (sources conflict on the date): Forbes and one of his brothers took a series of excellent photographs of the "Opening Run" at the "Cherokee Strip" in Oklahoma. In that run, about 20,000 (or 100,000 - our sources conflict on the number) homesteaders crossed the border into "Indian Territory" in a mad dash for Free Land. After photographing the event, the 2 brothers loaded their photographic equipment into their wagon and joined the run themselves! The photographs of this opening run are now at the University of Oklahoma.<a name='more'></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1890: Forbes Family (except for one son, John, who owned a store in Bazine, Kansas) moved to southern Calif., first settling in Riverside County and later in Santa Ana in Orange County.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1890-1898: Forbes worked as an itinerant photographer, traveling from town to town by wagon. He worked his way westward, capturing images in Oklahoma, Dodge City, and up and down the eastern slope of the Rockies, as well as New Mexico and Arizona. His Bishop Studio Catalog lists images from these periods. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1889: After the "Opening Run" at the "Cherokee Strip" in 1889, Forbes waved good-bye to his cowboy life, and turned to the life of a itinerant photographer until his end of days.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1890-1898: Forbes photographed cowboys in various activities, and cattle and buffalo herds. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forbes gathered a remarkable collection of Native American photos, taken mainly in Taos and Santa Fe, New Mexico and northern Arizona. Native tribes that A. A. photographed included the Cheyenne, Apache, Navajo, Moqui (now Hopi), Pueblo and Supai. These are listed in his Bishop Studio Catalog. </span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1898-1902: Forbes arrived in California. He made his photo studio headquarters in Santa Ana with his parents and siblings. He took photos in the following areas and of the following subjects: southern California, north to Hollister and San Joaquin Valley, communities, landscapes, Death Valley, the New Idria Mercury Mine, fur trappers, and more.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1902-1916: Forbes established a photography studio in Bishop California on West Line Street, known strangely enough as "Forbes Studio"! The exact establishment date is not clear, but was after 1900 and before 1904. Forbes used a wagon loaded with his photographic outfit (tent, cameras, glass negatives, paper stock, dark room supplies, etc.) and travelled extensively taking and selling his photographs. Many of his Owens Valley travels were documented in the Inyo Independent newspaper.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1902-1916: Native American photo subjects - Prior to 1902. Forbes developed a fondness for Native Americans and their plight, and thus during his "Forbes Studio" era, he was frequently called upon to photograph portraits of them. This Forbes collection of photos remains as perhaps his most timeless works.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1902-1916: Common subjects during the "Forbes Studio" era included studio portraits, Native Americans in Owens Valley - Yosemite - and elsewhere, Owens Valley Paiute, Petrara, Luiseno, Western Mono, Miwok, Yokuts, southern Calif. orange groves, Calif. Missions, early industrial growth, the building of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1902-1916: the mainstay of "Forbes Studio" was scenic views of Owens Valley, the eastern Sierras, Mt. Whitney, Yosemite, and San Joaquin Valley. Landscape photography was his first love, and his prior experience as a stockman allowed him to pack bulky camera equipment and hit the wilderness road in a horse and wagon. When the wagon trail ended, he packed his heavy gear on his back and hiked to the ideal site that optimized the image he was trying to capture.</span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">10/17/1902 and 10/24/1902: Inyo Independent announces that Forbes was in Independence, "so give him a call soon". A week later, the II reported he was doing a "rushing business".</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">November 1902: Inyo Independent reported that Forbes had moved his Photographic Outfit to Line Pine.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">December 1902: Inyo Independent r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">eported that Forbes had moved his Photographic Outfit to Independence.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">February 1903: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inyo Independent r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">eported that Forbes had moved his Photographic Outfit to Big Pine for a few weeks</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May 1903: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">II r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">eported that Forbes had moved his Photographic Outfit to Independence.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">November 1903: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Inyo Independent r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">eported that Forbes had moved his Photographic Outfit to Independence for a week.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">December 1903: Inyo Independent reported that Forbes returned to Bishop, and had taken a number of beautiful photos of the Sierra Nevadas.</span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">February 1906: Inyo Independent report that Forbes would be in Independence until Feb. 20, 1906 and that he had "pitched his big tent...".</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1909 (date?) Forbes married Mary Rozette Prutzman, a young businesswoman, who took over the business details of the studio. She often accompanied Forbes on monthlong summer wagon and pack trips into the mountains.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1910 (date?) Forbes and wife Mary had one son, J. McLaren Forbes.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1916: Forbes closed the studio and moved to Lompoc, Calif. The reasons given vary with the source. Some say it was for family health reasons. Others say it was to establish a new studio in more populous southern California (that never happened). Others say that he left because he was saddened to see the "slow death" of Owens Valley as it was being bled dry by the Los Angeles Aqueduct.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3/21/1921: Died of a heart attack in Lompoc, Calif.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1921-1955: His wife, Mary, apparently continues to run the photo studio after Forbes death, and their son "Laren’s" interest in photography is therefore explained. Mrs. Forbes was still producing items such as calendars and photo postcards as late as 1955 that also used her son’s images as well, and some can occasionally be found on eBay and elsewhere today.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A. A. Forbes was described as an affable fellow of good nature who was friendly and well-liked. He was an active member of the Odd Fellows Lodge, participated in community and church activities, and local plays.</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Very happy to hear that you are planning on an AA Forbes book. Don't know if rmccutch (Rich M.) or inyotortoise51 want to assist in your endeavors, but inyotortoise51 had, and now rmccutch has, a very nice collection of Forbes photos. You would be welcome to use the tintype image I purchased. I also have a few images of Forbes Post Cards and images I have obtained (digital copies, unfortunately, did not win actual photo) from eBay over the years.</span></div>
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Tim Waaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17519482487162530986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417541436990122650.post-4381284266598575912011-09-29T08:27:00.000-07:002014-03-12T10:13:35.479-07:00New Exhibit Spotlights A. A. Forbes photos: 3/19/11 - 2/28/2012 at ECM<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Eastern California Museum is located at 155 N. Grant, Street, Independence, CA, and is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. For more information, call 760-878-0258, or go to their web site by <a href="http://www.inyocounty.us/ecmuseum"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">clicking here</span></b></a>. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">You can see descriptions of the Museum's most recent exhibits by <a href="http://www.inyocounty.us/ecmsite/exhibits.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">clicking here</span></b></a>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The Eastern California Museum displayed an exhibit on A. A. Forbes (along with Edward Curtis) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">between March 19, 2011 and February 28, 2012. Sadly, we were not able to attend.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Edward S. Curtis stated his intent to create a visual and textual document of American Indians beginning in 1906, for his 20-volume epic, “The North American Indian.” Many of his photos have become iconic images. The Moore Family Trust recently donated 30 Curtis photogravures to the Eastern California Museum. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">These classic, formal Curtis images will be contrasted with the work of pioneer photographer Andrew A. Forbes, who began his photo-documentation of the settling of the Owens Valley and the valley’s Paiute tribes around 1902. Photos of camps and dwellings present the view with the most striking difference between the two men’s approaches to documenting the culture, and cultural changes taking place in the west at the time. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The two photographers also took different approaches to studio portraits that present contrasting interpretations of their Native American subjects. Guest curator Richard Stewart will provide explanatory text and the exhibit’s interpretive information. Stewart, a member of the Big Pine Paiute Shoshone Tribe is an artist, poet and exhibit designer. The exhibit was titled "1,000 Words or More …” .</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andrew Alexander Forbes was born in Ottowa, Wisconsin, in 1862. Although little is known about Forbes's training and early photography work, his activity in the area that is now western Oklahoma appears to have begun around 1885. Like those of other itinerant photographers of the time, his photography studio was a mobile, self-contained unit that could be transported by wagon or pack animal.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forbes found the largest customer base for his photographic trade in the groups of working cowboys located in the area that is now western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. He often joined a range-cattle outfit for several days to photograph cowboys and herds on their grazing range. The opening of the Unassigned Lands in April 1889 was an irresistible business opportunity for Forbes. He made photographs of Oklahoma City just a few days after it was established. His landscape photographs capture images of a frontier town at birth and include long-range shots of tents, wooden buildings with false fronts, frame buildings under construction, and piles of lumber positioned near the railroad depot.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He also photographed settlers on their homesteads, but only a few of these images have survived. These family photographs, often made in front of sod houses, would become important heirlooms to be passed down through several generations. Forbes spent approximately seven to eight years in Oklahoma Territory before continuing his journey west. He eventually settled in Bishop, California, where he established a photography studio. Andrew Alexander Forbes died on March 21, 1921.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>SEE ALSO:</b> <a href="http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/P/PR010.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">WILLIAM PRETTYMAN</a>, <a href="http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/W/WE016.html" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">WESTERN HISTORY COLLECTIONS</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>BIBLIOGRAPHY:</b> Karen Current and William R. Current, <i>Photography and the Old West</i> (New York: Amon Carter, Inc., 1978). Andrew A. Forbes Collection, Western History Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries, Norman, Oklahoma.</span></div>
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Tim Waaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17519482487162530986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417541436990122650.post-68940354022565972512011-09-28T19:50:00.000-07:002014-02-07T14:25:26.657-08:00Texas State Historical Association<a href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ffo53"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Texas State Historical Association</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"></span><strong>FORBES, ANDREW ALEXANDER</strong> (1862–1921). Andrew Alexander Forbes, photographer, was born in Ottawa Township, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, on April 18, 1862, the fifth child of James McLaren and Lucinda P. (Sanders) Forbes. Although little is known about him, his photographs are important historical documents that present the often tedious reality of life on the range. In the late 1880s Forbes began traveling on seasonal circuits through Texas and Oklahoma, visiting isolated spreads to photograph cowboys. He used glass plates, probably commercially prepared, to take his pictures. Ranchhands would pay fifty cents to a dollar for his photographs, and they gave him free bed and board. In addition to the expected shots of cowboys roping, branding, and dipping cattle, Forbes photographed cowhands engaged in more prosaic activities such as cooking, eating, smoking, and packing their gear.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Guns, chaps, boots, and other accoutrements of Hollywood legend are relatively scarce in Forbes's photographs, although most of the cowpunchers wear broad-brimmed hats and are shown close to their horses. In some of Forbes's photographs the cowhands were obviously posing for the "folks back home," as in a roping scene labeled <em>Branding</em>, in which no fire or irons are visible. Forbes's inclusion of rocky outcrops, mesas, vast expanses of space, and other landscape details provide a more romantic air in some of his shots; however, a photograph of cowboys in long coats, braced against a bitterly cold, dreary day, is more characteristic of his unvarnished approach to his subject matter. Forbes also photographed other aspects of western settlement, such as the April 1889 land rush in Oklahoma's unassigned lands, pioneers posed by their sod homes, Sac and Fox Indian children and teachers at a mission school in Indian Territory, and <a class="qv" href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/tcb02" style="color: #2763a5; text-decoration: none;">buffalo</a> and other animals on the ranch of <a class="qv" href="http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fgo11" style="color: #2763a5; text-decoration: none;">Charles Goodnight</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 1909 Forbes moved to Bishop, California, where he married Mary R. Prutsman on June 30, 1909; they had one child. As a pioneer photographer in that area, Forbes specialized in mining and commercial work. He died in Lompoc, California, on March 21, 1921. His photographs are included in the collections of the Seaver Center for Western History Research in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; the University of Oklahoma Library in Norman, Oklahoma; the Library of Congress; and the Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives, Washington, D.C.</span></div>
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Tim Waaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17519482487162530986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417541436990122650.post-47875229482233480882010-04-05T10:39:00.000-07:002014-02-07T14:25:59.690-08:00A. A. Forbes and the Salt Tram<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The following is my Salt Tram blog post related to A. A. Forbes. Although I will reproduce it here, it can be found at this link: <a href="http://salttram.blogspot.com/2010/01/salt-tram-photographer-a-forbes.html"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;">A. A. Forbes - Salt Tram photographer</span></b></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A. A. Forbes operated his studio in Bishop from 1902 to 1916, the same timeframe in which the Salt Tram was conceived, designed, built and operated. In addition, the Salt Tram innovator and President, White Smith, Esq. (that means he was a lawyer) was a prominent citizen of the same Bishop, California in which Mr. Forbes had his studio. Both A. A. Forbes and White Smith advertised their respective businesses (Photography Studio and Law Office) on the same page in the Inyo Register for numerous years and must have been acquainted; we hope that White and family and friends sat for a portrailt with A. A., and we hope you have a copy of it - we'd love to see it! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A. A. Forbes has a large collection of his photos (from exquisite and detailed 8" x 10" negatives) in the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. At the museum's website,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is located the "Illustrated Catalog of Forbes Studio, Bishop, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Inyo</span> County, California", with the catalog published around 1912 to 1914 containing his works from the studio between 1902 and 1914. Brian, get on it - find that collection, and see if any more Salt Tram-related photos are in it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Long before beginning our Salt Tram research project, I was vaguely familiar with the works of Owens Valley photographer A. A. Forbes. So it was without surprise that a good number of his photographs documented the Saline Valley Salt Tram. It was time to dig a little deeper into the life and career of A. A. Forbes, but this time, Google was of little help - just not a lot of hits on good old "A. A." However, there was one little spark of a lead - and I followed it. In "The Journal of California Anthropology (Summer 1975)" was an article written by Jon <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Bosak</span> ("Photography Editor"). Google included a description that indicated that this article contained the only known biography of A. A. Forbes. I got very excited at reading this, and tracked down a copy of the journal, which is now in my <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">posession</span>. It contains an 11 paragraph biography of A. A. Forbes, which I will summarize below. Note the the article states that in the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History <b>www.nhm.org/site</b> is located the "Illustrated Catalog of Forbes Studio, Bishop, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Inyo</span> County, California", published around 1912 to 1914.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The purpose of this article was for Jon <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Bosak</span> to present 16 previously unpublished photos of the Owens Valley Paiute <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">indian</span>, take by Bishop, California photographer Andrew Alexander Forbes. With rare exceptions, the author claims that A. A. Forbes photos from his "Forbes Studio Collection" have never been published. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Bosak</span> also attributes more than 1200 negatives "of all types of subjects" in the Forbes collection at the LA museum. Barring the purposeful distortion of facts taken on by photographers of Forbes day, the photos are seen as primary research tools reflecting facts on the ground about the way of life of his subjects, which <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Bosak</span> believes to be primarily native Americans. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• April 21, 1862 - A. A. Forbes ("Andy" to his friends) was born in Wisconsin. Other sources report him being born on April 18, 1862, in Ottawa Township, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. He was the 5th child of James McLaren and Lucinda P. (Sanders) Forbes. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• 1867 - family traveled from Wisconsin to California via the Isthmus of Panama, then returned to Iowa in 1878.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• 1878 - moved to Kansas, working as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">stockmen</span> until the blizzards, combined with grasshopper hordes, destroy feed between 1888 and 1890, forcing them to move on.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• 1878 - 1888 - somewhere in this <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">timeframe</span>, while working with his family as a cowboy, A. A. took up photography. Little is known of his training in this art. In the late 1880s, he began traveling on seasonal circuits (rodeo???, cattle drives?) through Texas and Oklahoma, visiting isolated spreads to photograph cowboys. He used glass plates to take his photos. Ranchhands paid 50 cents to a dollar for his photographs, and they gave him free be and board. Common cowboy shots by Forbes included poses: roping, branding, dipping cattle, cooking, eating, smoking, and packing gear. Another source reports that his photographic work began in Oklahoma around 1885; he used a mobile, self-contained unit that could be transported by wagon or pack animal.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• April 22, 1889 - took historical photos of the "Opening Run" event where 20,000 homesteaders races across the Oklahoma border into "Indian Territory" in a wild dash for free land. These Opening Run photos are now at the University of Oklahoma, and marked a turn in his career. He would be a professional photographer from then on. In the Oklahoma land rush, pioneers posed by their sod homes, Sac and Fox Indian children and teachers posed at a mission school, and took shots of buffalo and other animals on the ranch of Charles Goodnight. Another source reports that he made photographs of Oklahoma City just days after it was established, with his landscape photos capturing images of a frontier town at birth, and including long shots of tents, wood buildings with false fronts, wood frame buildings under construction, and piles of lumber near the railroad depot.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• Another source reports that Forbes found his largest customer base in groups of working cowboys in western Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle; he often joined a range-cattle outfit for several days to photograph cowboys and hers on the range.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• 1890 - Itinerant photographer, traveling from town to town by wagon team, moving westward, stopping in small towns to take photos of locals and "points of interest" until he saved enough money to move on. Another source reports that he photographed settlers on their homesteads, but few of these images have survived. Forbes spent about 7 or 8 years in Oklahoma territory before continuing west.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• 1890 - moved to southern California (Riverside, then Santa Ana).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• 1898 - Forbes arrived in California, having gathered a remarkable collection of Indian photos from those itinerant years. Forbes first made studio headquarters in Santa Ana with his family.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• 1902 - Moved his studio to Bishop California, though the date is not clear, the move was certainly made between 1900 and 1904 (other sources report that he moved to Bishop as late as 1909). The classic "Forbes Studio" was set up in Bishop, where he married businesswoman <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Rozette</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Prutzman (also reported as Mary R. Prutsman) on June 30, 1909</span>, who managed the studio, and had one son with him, J. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">McLaren</span> Forbes. During the 14 years Forbes operated the studio, he became friends with the Indians of the area, hanging out with them, and often taken portraits of their families, thus creating a bond of trust between them. The financial mainstay of his studio, was "sale to tourists of Forbes' scenic views of Owens Valley" and the surrounds, including the Sierras, Yosemite and the San Joaquin Valley. It is also reported that he specialized in "mining and commercial work". </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• 1916 - Forbes closed the studio for health reasons and moved to southern California, where he was unable to open up a new studio.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• 1921 - Forbes passed away, well-remembered as a friendly and well-liked man, active in the Odd Fellows lodge, community and church groups, and local plays. One source lists that he passed away in Lompoc, Calif. on March 21, 1921.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">• His works are included in collections of the Seaver Center for Western History Research in the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles County; the University of Oklahoma Library in Norman, Oklahoma; the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives, Washington, D.C.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Though we have only 1 photo by Forbes in our historical Salt Tram photo collection, we believe that there may have been many more. In fact, my recollection is that while looking through the large Eastern California Museum collection of Salt Tram photos, we encountered others, particularly in post card form, though my recollection may be hazy. At that time, I was not particularly cognizant of A. A Forbes and his local photography contributions, so was not on the lookout for his work - but now I am.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>UPDATE: 3/27/2010 </b><i>Brian called the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, and they indicated that they had photos of the Saline Valley Salt Tram in the Forbes collection at the museum, but NOBODY can scan or use them in ANY publication, EVER - all you can do is photocopy them. I find that hard to believe, as the article above (The Journal of California Anthropology (Summer 1975), Andrew A. Forbes - Photographs of the Owens Valley Paiute, Jon <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Bosak</span>, Photography Editor) has many photos from that collection printed at 8.5" x 11" (and NOT from a photocopy). We'll have to look into this more - perhaps have some of our "partners" make the phone call! :-)</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forbes photos <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">posess</span> high technical quality, due primarily to the massive 8 inch x 10 inch size of the negatives, along with the required long exposures times, which captured incredible detail. Forbes also possessed a seriousness of purpose in his photography, which allowed him to doggedly pursue difficult subjects to bag a successful photo, which we hope to find that he applied to Salt Tram subjects. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A quick scan of the book "Images of America: Lone Pine" by Christopher Langley (Arcadia Publishing, Copyright 2007) reveals multiple images by A. A. Forbes. I may have missed some, as the author often does not attribute photos to the photographer, but to the collection from whence they came. Since many of the photos are severely cropped for the limited space of this book format, Forbes name is often chopped off the photo, as evidenced by a few photos with only a fragment of the common "A. A. Forbes" or "Forbes Photo" that was hand-written onto the print. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Page 80 (bottom) - "Lone Pine Sub Station, So. Sierra Power Co.", "Forbes", shows the Lone Pine Southern Sierra Power Station that received hydroelectric power, thanks to the LA Dept. of Water and Power's work.</span><br />
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Tim Waaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17519482487162530986noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8417541436990122650.post-3121862076129981012010-04-05T10:30:00.000-07:002014-02-24T10:46:08.501-08:00Welcome to the life of A. A. Forbes<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Frontier Photographer Andrew Alexander Forbes</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In researching the Saline Valley Salt Tram, we repeatedly came across photos taken by frontier photographer A. A. Forbes of Bishop, California. As with the Salt Tram, we found out that there was no real information out there on the man and his work. Through the years, we've seen many quality historical photos with that name "A. A. Forbes" written neatly in a corner of the image, and knew that he had made a substantial contribution to the recording of history in the amazingly history-dense Owens Valley, California. Just like our desert explorations, one discovery merely leads to another, and the effect is exponential in nature, thus bringing Andrew Alexander Forbes into our litterary gunsight.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Though most of the available research time has been devoted to completing research on the Salt Tram, I am hoping that those who have information on the life, times and photography of Mr. Forbes will continue to contact us. I don't write about Forbes because I want to, but do so because I have to. My writing subjects reach out to me and implore me to not let their dreams and goals, aspirations and sweat, disappear from the face of the earth forever. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I must honor Andrew Alexander's extraordinary contributions made by what on the surface may appear to be an ordinary man. My gut tells me that A. A. Forbes was a hardworking man of the people, humble to his core, who connected in a spiritual way with the people and places that he photographed. So far, my research bears this out.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome to the life of A. A. Forbes, Frontier Photographer.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As with the Salt Tram investigation effort (click on <a href="http://www.salttram.blogspot.com/">Salt Tram</a>), we are seeking photos from A. A. Forbes and related information of his life and times. Please help if you can. Thank-you for reading about this extraordinary gentleman.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #4c1130;"><b><a href="http://aaforbes.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Go To A. A. Forbes Home</span></a></b></span></span>Tim Waaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17519482487162530986noreply@blogger.com0