Cantey Collection

Two original cabinet photographs, one taken by Bergstrom, Waco, Texas and the other by Jackson, Waco, Texas. The one on the left is of  McLennan County Sheriff Joseph Westley Damron . Waco is the County Seat. The images date in 1880s.  On the right is Sheriff Damron (upper row, middle) with his deputies. Sheriff Damron wears his badge as do two of the deputies standing beside him. All five men hold their Single Action Colts. The group image is extremely rare as 95% of images of officers do NOT show their guns. They often show their badges but guns are very rare. Seated man on the right holds a Mexican sombero hat.  Waco is located 100 miles from Fort Worth, Texas and 1/2 way between Fort Worth and Austin. I doubt the officers had much to enforce in Waco proper as it was never a "Wild West" town. More famous for, a house of prostitution (legal and controlled by the city), cotton growing, farming, and a Baptist University.

Left:  Samuel O'Brien Harris and his wife Maggie taken in 1882 by Gannaway in Fort Smith, Arkansas. She was from Booken, Oklahoma Territory.  Right: U.S. Deputy Marshal Harris covering Indian Territory under Judge Isaac Parker also taken by Gannaway. He is wearing his badge. He is listed on the internet as taking the Marshal oath in 1889 for a few short months but this image in dated 1888. He may have enlisted and served from 1888 until 1889 (unknown).  Both images are fully identified on the back by their son.  It is rare to have any photograph of one of these historic Deputy Marshals especially wearing their badge.  They are both albumen photographs.

Wikipedia spells his name Renville. This original photograph of him spells his name Remville on the front and back. The back appears to be his original ink signature. At any rate he was also known as Ti'wakan (Sacred Lodge) and was the Chief of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Sioux Tribe from 1866 until his death in 1892. He opposed fighting with the U.S. and was a leader in the Dakota Peace party. He helped create the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Images of him are rare. This one was taken by Steinhauer, S. Dakota. in the late 1880s or circa 1890.

CDV of W.H. Gribbens who was legally hanged along with his friend in Ashland, Ohio in 1884. His friend actually killed the man with a rock in an argument but Gribbens was tried as an accessory and hanged with him. Witnesses testified that Gribbens had nothing to do with the fight so he was innocent. Miscarriage of justice.  It was the last of the public hanging in Ohio. You can read more on Google.

This cabinet photograph is from the Hugh Thomason collection. It was with the photograph of Foggy Byerly just before this one. Thomason has identified him just as "Pogue" on the back. It was taken in same spot as Byerly at the Jefferson Brks in Mo. in 1888. He appears to be an officer? I have not tried to identify him but undoubtedly served at Wounded Knee.