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Bob Lemmons
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The Library of Congress Bob Lemmons I claim no rights other than colorizing this image if you wish to use let me know. Title Bob Lemmons, Carrizo Springs, Texas. Born a slave about 1850, south of San Antonio, Texas. Came to Carrizo Springs during Civil War with white men seeking new range for their cattle. In 1865, with his master was one of the first settlers. He knew Billy the Kid, King Fisher, and other noted bad men of the border Contributor Names Lange, Dorothea, photographer Created / Published 1936 Aug. Subject Headings - United States--Texas--Dimmit County--Carrizo Springs - Farms, people--Texas Format Headings Nitrate negatives. Genre Nitrate negatives Notes - Title and other information from caption card. - Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. - More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi - Temp. note: usf34batch1 Medium 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller. Call Number/Physical Location LC-USF34- 009744-E [P&P] LOT 547 (corresponding photographic print) Source Collection Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Digital Id fsa 8b29793 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b29793 Library of Congress Control Number 2017763146 Reproduction Number LC-DIG-fsa-8b29793 (digital file from original neg.) LC-USF34-009744-E (b&w film nitrate neg.) Rights Advisory No known restrictions. For information, see U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White Photographs http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/071_fsab.html Online Format image Description 1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.

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::tigger3
05/02/18 8:15 PM GMT
Perfectly done with that technique of yours once again my friend. Here is bit more info on Bob Lemmon's.(Robert Lemmons was one of the greatest mustangers of all time. He became a legend in his day by perfecting his unique method of catching wild mustang horses.)
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::Nikoneer
05/03/18 4:17 AM GMT
Bob Lemmons, "the most original mustanger," was born about 1847 and moved to Texas in 1854. He was the slave of John English, who had come to make a home at Carrizo Springs in Southwest Texas. Lemmons's birth name is not known; after being freed, he came under the tutelage of Texas rancher, Duncan Lemmons, who took the seventeen-year-old youth to Eagle Pass to work for him. Out of respect for his new employer and friend, Lemmons adopted the rancher's last name. He worked at the Eagle Pass ranch learning the techniques of ranching and mustanging. When Duncan Lemmons died, Bob continued to work as a "brush cowboy" and ranch foreman in the Carrizo Springs area. He eventually purchased his own ranch near Carrizo Springs and worked it until his failing eyesight forced him to retire. His fame came about as a result of his mustanging methods. Said Lemmons, "I grew up with the mustangs... I acted like I was a mustang... made them think I was one of them." His methods were unusual because he would mustang alone. When working a herd of mustangs, Lemmons lived off the land, taking for comfort only a Mexican blanket, which served as both cover and slicker. The legend of the man who lived as a mustang and gained the confidence of the wild horses spread throughout Texas, but his career as a mustanger ended when the Carrizo Springs area population began to grow and when fences sprang up on the landscape. Though he could no longer mustang, Lemmons determined to live "alone in the brush." In 1931, author J. Frank Dobie interviewed Lemmons for his book "The Mustangs" (1952). Lemmons was approximately 100 years old when he died in Dimmit County, on December 23, 1947. A true character of the old west.

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::corngrowth
05/03/18 9:41 AM GMT
Rob, Sandi, and again 'Nik', and you have performed a perfect match, revealing a part of the 'old west'. It reads like an illustrated book (because of your perfect way of colorization).
Thanks to you all for the research and editing work, making this post to a very interesting and valuable one! Kudos!
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.GomekFlorida
05/03/18 1:40 PM GMT
Very interesting narrative and rework!
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.Starglow
05/03/18 3:12 PM GMT
You've done a great job on this.
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