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1917 tinted postcard.
Oh man, look at those hats and boots!
And the beautiful Ford King Ranch my kids are going to buy me out of their inheritance.Hands on the King Ranch, Texas, circa mid 1960s.
photo courtesy Juana Lopez
Traces of Texas
Really curious photo. Any idea where it was taken? The hair styles, sideburns, and clothes all seem to be from fifty years before (or more). Then, as now, the older guys mostly wore long hair with facial foliage and loose clothing and the young guys short hair and, at most, carefully trimmed mustaches, and trim clothing.
Really curious photo. Any idea where it was taken?
If it is him then the 1902 date can't be correct. Cole & Jim weren't paroled from prison until July 1901. One of the original conditions of parole was that they could never leave the state of Minnesota. Jim eventually became so despondent because he could not return to Missouri (& he could not marry, another condition) that he committed suicide in Oct 1902. It wasn't until early 1903 that Cole was granted a full pardon by the governor of Minnesota & allowed to return to Missouri, a free man.
Frank & Annie moved on to the farm when his mother died in ~1911. He used to sell index cards with a rubber ink stamp & a small pebble glued on claiming it was from Jesse's original grave on the farm. Most likely the pebble came right out of the creek that ran thru there. Frank died on the farm in 1915. Annie continued to live there for sometime after their son Robert & his wife Mae moved in with her.
Back row #8 looks like "Windy Jim" Cummins, boyhood friend of Jesse's who rode under Quantrill & later gang member. Jim lived a long life, even wrote a book & died in the Confederate Veterans home, Higginsville, MO. He's buried there.
Based on the close set eyes, hair style & mustache could this be a match?