The Grave Digger

May 30, 2016
   Working on an African-American frontiersman who tracked the Apache Kid to a spring on the Slaughter Ranch. He lived to be 102 years old and spent his last years in Tucson where he worked at Holy Hope Cemetery. 

Daily Whip Out: "The Grave Digger"

We are running a rare photo of him that John Langellier found:

Jim Young in Tombstone circa 1920s

Did a couple sketches trying to get under that snap cap:

Daily Whip Outs: "The Grave Digger sketches 1-2-3"

Daily Whip Out: "Grave Digger Study #4"

Daily Whip Out: "Grave Digger Study #5"

"There are two statements about human beings that are true: that all human beings are alike, and that all are different. On those two facts all human wisdom is founded."

—Mark Van Doren