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101 Year Old Cowboy Sid Wilson Stew Pot Pick 'em Up Ranch Tombstone Arizona 1980 #2 Poster
by David Lee Guss
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101 Year Old Cowboy Sid Wilson Stew Pot Pick 'em Up Ranch Tombstone Arizona 1980 #2 poster by David Lee Guss. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Sid Wilson (1879-1981), was the last of the authentic 19th century cowboys. ... more
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Sid Wilson (1879-1981), was the last of the authentic 19th century cowboys.
His was a life that could not begin to be duplicated today. He combined both the real West, on the cusp of extinction, and the fanciful one of Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the early "flickers."
Wilson was a bronc rider with Bill Cody's show which performed before Britain's Queen Victoria shortly before she died in 1901; having served as England's longest ruling monarch (1837-1901).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5TAbNR6xKM
Wilson might very well be a rider in this 1902 Buffalo Bill Wild West parade photographed by Edison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w__1GyfQPQ&NR=1
Sid also appeared with Annie Oakley (1860-1926) who is briefly seen in the above Edison "Black Maria" 1894 shot footage. He may also be the bronc rider filmed in the last scene.
Wilson was the stunt double for Hollywood's first cowboy star, "Broncho Billy" Anderson, born Max A...
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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