PBA Galleries

42 silver photograph, in window mats of an album. Images approx. 9.5x12 cm (3¾x4¾"); album is 29x19.5 cm (11¼x7½"), cloth.

Captivating original photographs of a hunting trip in the wilds of Colorado, the party composed three gentlemen, (Dr. J. Wylie Anderson, John F. Tortelotte and F.A. Williams, and the outing s described in a brief news clipping affixed to the front pastedown: "A hunting party... returned from a week's shooting on the western slope yesterday with a bobcat and a mountain lion apiece. The party had fine weather with just enough snow to make the tracking good. They went out with S.C. Himes of Newcastle, with his outfit and dogs and had great sport..." The photos include the party on horseback, the dogs, hunter's gazing towards the horizon, traipsing along with their rifles, holding up dead bobcats, etc. The album is inscribed to the aforementioned Dr. J. Wylie Anderson, who was the president of the Colorado State Board of the State Examiners, President of the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Colorado, and an early member of  the Denver Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital Association. Laid into the album if a typed poem about the hunting trip, "The Tale of A Bob Cat, That escaped the camera, but not the rifle. (Tune: 'My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean.')" It is a rather disturbing verse if one is a lover of cats, but it does identify the place of the hunt as Salt Creek."