Item #6520 [The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]
[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]

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[The Angus Cattle V.V. Ranch, New Mexico.]

V.V. Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico, ca. 1890. 11 albumen prints, 5.5” x 8”, on 8” x 10” mounts. 2 commercially produced boudoir cards (4.5” x 7.5”, plus margins). Each with notations in ink and pencil on verso, all but 6 in a later hand. One period caption on recto is repeated on the verso, identifying three men: A. Steiner, Bert Normand, and W. L. Morgan.

A lively group of photos documenting life and labor on the V.V. Ranch in Lincoln County, New Mexico, founded by James M. Cree in the mid-1880s.

The images offered here show thirteen cowboys during a round-up of hundreds of cattle (“Scenes on the Round Up ‘Catching Horses out of Remotha’”); ten men and a young boy breaking for food and drink next to a chuck wagon, which bears the lettering “V. V.”; a cowboy branding a pinned cow; a group of over a dozen cowboys ‘charging’ at the camera and waving their hats (“Finished for the Day”); a candid portrait of a cowboy leaning on his horse with a lasso in one hand; over a dozen cowboys and a woman (possibly a cook) eating dinner near a tree and a wagon (“Supper Time”); a snow-covered mountain-range as seen from the Ranch, and so on. Two photos of the Ranch taken at a distance give the viewer of its expanse. Pat Garrett is known to have served as a manager of the property for a period. James Cree and his partner Brandon Kirby, owners of the V.V. Ranch, are credited with introducing the Angus breed of cattle to New Mexico.

CONDITION: Good, fading to some of the images, occasional wear at margins; specks to boudoir cards; one image with a few small chips into image.

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