Monday, July 22, 2013

Excuse Me While I Whip This Out

July 22, 2013
   Got up this morning and whipped out a little study illustrating John J. Cozad confronting Al Pearson in a hay field outside of Cozad, Nebraska:




Threats were exchanged (Cozad owed Pearson wages for the building of a sod damn over a year-and-a-half before). This confrontation would escalate until one of them, below, got a bullet in the mouth, that exited his ear:



 
Daily Whipout: "Al Pearson, from a photograph, c. 1881"

Big monsoon blew in on Saturday night. Pictures and video to follow.

"Drama is anticipation mingled with uncertainty."
—William Archer