Four Cowboys

Title

Four Cowboys

Description

Four men dressed as cowboys, identified on the back of the photograph from left-to-right as: Albert Tozier, Henry Sicade, Ben Martin, and James Hopkins. Sicade was a notable member of the Puyallup Tribe. He entered the Forest Grove Indian School in 1880 before enrolling in regular high school classes at Tualatin Academy nearby around 1883. Later in life, he went on to found an integrated public school system in Fife, WA, near the Puyallup Reservation. Albert Tozier was also notable: He later became the editor of several newspapers in Washington County, Oregon. At the time that this photograph was created, the four young men had taken on work as cowboys and traveled together across the country. This studio portrait was made in Geneva, New York, in 1886.

[Front] [stamped] Theo. H. Wood = Geneva, N. Y. [Back] [ink] Albert Tozier; Henry Sicade, Ben Martin, James Hopkins. Geneva, NY, 1886. These students at Pacific University were given a trip to New York the summer of 1886 by taking care of a car load of horses shipped W. D. Baxter. The horses from the bunch grass country near Yakima. [sic] These boys had the time of the their lives. [stamped] Theo. H. Wood, Artist, Photographer. Pictures by Instaneous Process. 4 and 6 Seneca St., Geneva. Pictures copies and enlarged.

Identifier

WCMpic_001466

Creator

Wood, Theo. H., photographer, Geneva, New York

Subject

Cowboys

Indian cowboys

Students

Puyallup Indians

Tozier, Albert E.

Sicade, Henry

Martin, Ben

Hopkins, James

Baxter, W. D.

Education History

Genealogy & Family History

Native American Studies

Social History

Travel & Tourism

Off-reservation boarding schools

Chemawa Indian School

Spatial Coverage

Geneva, New York

Language

English

Date

1886

Medium

cabinet photographs

Rights

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Type

Still Image

Source

Washington County Museum