I started collecting because I liked to read and wanted to keep every book and not have to return it to a library. My first book collection was Hardy Boys. I got my passion for collecting outlaw and lawmen photos from reading about them. I do not know why they interested me so much. Maybe it was because Oklahoma, my native home, had so many of them. My first original photograph was a cabinet card of Pat Garrett, given to me by his son Jarvis.  It made me aware of what an “original”


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