Photographer Evelyn Cameron (above with her Graflex camera) captured these images of the XIT herd swimming the Yellowstone River near Fallon, Montana in 1904. Rodeo cowboy, Johnnie Mullens worked for this large cattle ranch in his early days as a cowpuncher. Read more about Johnnie Mullens on page 42.
Yellowstone images courtesy Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Mary Alice Pettis—Public domain/Evelyn Cameron courtesy True West archives
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