stand straight stand still
fiction
edward w pritchard
Don't we enjoy looking at old West pictures of cowboys, Indians and famous gun toting murderers.
Stand straight, stand still they were all told by the famous photographers.
Forty thousand buffalo hides piled up for loading on the railroad, no pre-picture instructions necessary.
A squaw with a baby bundled in a cradle board looking morose somewhere on the ancient Apache hunting grounds. Soldiers on horseback in background stare at ground.
Thirsty, dusty Cowboys herds cattle for shipment by railroad to Chicago.
Nameless dance hall girl in a new red dress before she married, had six children, and worked a farm for forty years near Deadwood.
Little four year old boy, smiling because he got a new hat, 1898 Wyoming.
Old West pictures-look at the silence.
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