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Camera in the Cow Camps

by | May 1, 2008 | Features & Gunfights

Cowboy Erwin E. Smith captured the disappearing West on film.
At the turn of the 20th century, a young cowboy obsessed over how he could best preserve true cowboy culture. Erwin Evans Smith, born in 1886, roped, branded, herded cattle, rode horseback and cooked chuckwagon food while staying at his uncle John Sanders’s JCS Ranch in Foard County, Texas. Some of the old cowhands shared their stories with him, as well as


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