This Week's Best Old Photos
Cowboys. Broadway. Old California. Liberated Paris. Lincoln's long goodbye.




Cowboy photographer Erwin Smith, who chronicled life on the open range, took these pictures on a Texas night in 1908: supper at the chuck wagon; clog dancing to a lone guitar; hand-rolling a bedtime cigarette; and waking the night rider who, in the days before fences, would keep the cattle herd together while the camp slept.
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