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I'm still up workin' on a couple things and remembered someone wanted a picture for this weekend. well I have one, a lady this time, a real Cowgirl. When I first saw this picture doin' the search "shotgun" I thought I had found a photo of a Wild West Show performer. Miss Sadie Austin, near Simeon, Cherry County Nebraska 1900.
Picture 12988 Butcher Collection.
However Butchers notes and John Carter's notes does not meantion "Wild West Show" performer. I am pretty sure if she was that would have been meantioned in Butcher's notes.
(Photographer's note: Daughter of Charles Austin, a ranchman and old settler of Sargent, Nebraska. When her father was short of help, Sadie, now Mrs. Thompson, would put on a divided skirt and ride the range for her father.)
{In 1981, Robert Vaughn Bell identified the saddle on Austin's horse as being a model 14-P, made by the well-known Cheyenne, Wyoming, saddler Frank Meanea.}
The skirt appears to be some sort of leather, a wise idea if ground work was needed because of the cacti and sandburrs common in the area.
The pistole is a model 1851 Colt Navy with a carved ivory handle. The ladies top is bottoned right on this one so she must be left handed. The shotgun is a Model 1897 Winchester.
And it is almost tommorow/today here.

Picture 12988 Butcher Collection.
However Butchers notes and John Carter's notes does not meantion "Wild West Show" performer. I am pretty sure if she was that would have been meantioned in Butcher's notes.
(Photographer's note: Daughter of Charles Austin, a ranchman and old settler of Sargent, Nebraska. When her father was short of help, Sadie, now Mrs. Thompson, would put on a divided skirt and ride the range for her father.)
{In 1981, Robert Vaughn Bell identified the saddle on Austin's horse as being a model 14-P, made by the well-known Cheyenne, Wyoming, saddler Frank Meanea.}
The skirt appears to be some sort of leather, a wise idea if ground work was needed because of the cacti and sandburrs common in the area.
The pistole is a model 1851 Colt Navy with a carved ivory handle. The ladies top is bottoned right on this one so she must be left handed. The shotgun is a Model 1897 Winchester.
And it is almost tommorow/today here.