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Gloomy Blumy’s Beautiful World

by | Nov 1, 2008 | Art, Guns and Culture

The broken wheel that drove Ernest Blumenschein to his destiny.
When the horse-drawn wagon slipped into a bad rut outside of Taos, New Mexico, in 1898, the two sketching buddies flipped a coin to see who would take the broken wheel to the blacksmith in Taos. Victory was Bert Phillips’; the defeated Ernest “Blumy” Blumenschein headed off on horseback, hobbled by the wheel he carried. “My destiny was being deci


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