Old photo of cowboy with lever and horse.

[rangerider7]

[gamekeeper]

Boy, they look the real deal.

[crs]

Does not look like a photo studio to me!

[J Miller]

He is the real deal.
The photograph was taken by Erwin E. Smith.
Ed Bomar poised with his gun beside his cutting horse "Rabbit". Turkey Track Ranch, Texas, 1906
Nitrate negative

This photo and a gazillion more can be found here:
http://www.cartermuseum.org/collections ... =6&scat=27

Sorry rangerider7, for a change I knew where something came from and just had to show it.

Joe

[rangerider7]

No problem, it is a great website. I just didn't take the time to title who it was. I think that is a Winchester 1894 Short Rifle. NEAT!

[J Miller]

No problem, it is a great website. I just didn't take the time to title who it was. I think that is a Winchester 1894 Short Rifle. NEAT!

It sure looks like it doesn't it?

I wonder if "this" Turkey Track ranch is the one Skeeter Skelton was using as his base for some of his stories?

Joe

[BigSky56]

Talk about the real deal a cowboy and his horse looks like he has a cigar in his vest pocket clothes are well fitted and I like his slickfork rig I'd guess hes the Segundo ? danny

[Warhawk]

No problem, it is a great website. I just didn't take the time to title who it was. I think that is a Winchester 1894 Short Rifle. NEAT!

It sure looks like it doesn't it?

I wonder if "this" Turkey Track ranch is the one Skeeter Skelton was using as his base for some of his stories?

Joe

I believe this "Turkey Track Ranch" is in the (Texas) Panhandle.

http://www.ranches.org/Turkey_Track.htm

[J Miller]

Warhawk,
Interesting read. I bookmarked it and will compare the two later.

Joe

[gglass]

So how could one tell if that rifle was a Winchester 1892 or 1894? The size and top eject just screams 1892 to me, but the 1894's came in the same configurations.

[Malamute]

I copied and zoomed it, looks like a 94.

Nice picture.

[Ben_Rumson]

Rifle aside... To me, if he was wearing a Walker in a cross draw rig, it would look like you know who...Neat photo

[L_Kilkenny]

Is it just me or does that man have STYLE!!

LK

[J Miller]

So how could one tell if that rifle was a Winchester 1892 or 1894? The size and top eject just screams 1892 to me, but the 1894's came in the same configurations.

gglass,
The differences between the 92 and 94 are subtle but definite. The action is longer enough to see it if you are familiar with both. The bottom of the receiver is shaped different and the loading gate on the 94 is longer than the 92. The levers are also a bit different. Put all those together and that rifle is a 94.

Joe

[Mike D.]

That Winchester is not really a "short rifle". If it was such it would have the 8 3/8" forearm to complement a 20" barrel. The gun "appears" to have standard 9 3/8" front wood and a specially ordered 22'' barrel. I haven't the technology to blow it up and check for certain, but that's what the photo is telling me. Regardless, it is a great vintage photo.

[BigSky56]

In a other pic of him he was wearing a, looks like, colt 71/2 colt in a crossdraw rig, classy cowboy, probably same rig in this pic. danny

[Nate C.]

Just look at that utterly flat, treeless backdrop. That could only be the Texas panhandle or the surface of the moon...

[Bill in Oregon]

My great grandfather had a ranch just upriver on the Canadian from the Turkey Track. You go through miles of the ranch to get the site of the Adobe Walls battle -- and the grave of Medal of Honor winner Billy Dixon. The place is simply alive with history.