Monday, June 13, 2022

Every Girl I Have Ever Known And Then Some

 June 13, 2022

   For the past two years I have been compiling scratchboard portraits of frontier females for our forthcoming "Real Women of The Wild West" book. Over the weekend I started rounding them all up and I was somewhat shocked to realize there are close to 100. This morning I narrowed those down and scanned 28 of them specifically for usage in the book and as I was scanning them I realized I knew almost every single one of them. Some I went to school with, some I am related to, some are friends and a few I have been intimately involved with. Perhaps the names I gave each scratchboard will give you a clue as to which category they fall in my memory bank (which by the way, is overdrawn, literally!).

Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"The Pot Stirrer"


Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"Tears for A Clown"


Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"Miss Snot-Nosed Determination"


Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"The Cook"


Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"The Flirt"


Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"The Mistress"


Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"The Showoff"


Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"The Smoker"


Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"The Wise Ass"

(also known in my day

as "The Backtalker")


Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"Little Miss Hysterical"

(also known as The Saint of Hysteria")


Daily Scratchboard Whip Out:

"She Makes Darkness Into Light"


   If you recognize yourself in here, please don't call your lawyer. I promise to disguise your looks before the book goes to press.


"Beauty and libel are in the eyes of the beholder."

—Old Vaquero Saying

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous8:52 PM

    A large cache of doc holliday and kate & wilhelmina horony tintypes were discovered early this year. https://youtu.be/9ub0yEgR4PM

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