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Originally Posted by Mills Morrison
The book should be interesting.
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It has been hard to write. It's not a history, or a novel, it is a biographical tale about Sallie Chisum's collection of tintypes that I stumbled across. I found other tintypes in and around Wisconsin, where the photographer's hometown was. Some I found within the historical society there and since they were not for sale, I just copied them. (with permission)
The photos are much better than any of the others that you see in books on the subject and while there are scores of books about Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War they all show the same few, well known, hackneyed images. Mine are not only never before seen, but also timely. Other's show the people, George Coe for instance, as an old man years after the time of the Kid, but mine were all taken at about the time of the Lincoln County War and people look as Billy would have known them.
Interestingly I have several pictures of people who have no others. So my photos are unique and now, at long last, people can see John Middleton, Frank McNab, and Yginio Salazar.
Of course one of the most exciting things about owning these photos is that I know that each and every person depicted also handled the very picture that I own! How neat is that! It is almost like shaking hands with Billy, or Sallie or Alex McSween. Handling old things carry the charm of the people who first owned them, just as shouldering an old Parker brings us close to the original owner so long ago.
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