Erwin E. Smith 1908-1909 Waking a Night Rider. this duty of the early day cowpuncher, like many other, went out of practice with the coming of barbed wire and large pastures for holding the herd. [The "sleeping" cowboy is George Patullo.] Three Block Ranch, New Mexico
Gelatin dry plate negative Amon Carter Museum Erwin E. Smith Collection of the Library of Congress on Deposit at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (LC-S6-239)