Posted by (+10040) 16 years ago
I was contacted over the weekend by someone who wanted to sell me (for a bargain price!! ) a copy of the "outlaw" photo allegedly taken at Hunters Hot Springs in the 1880s. Allegedly, the photo shows such famed personages as: Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Kid Curry, Wyatt & Morgan Earp, Theodore Roosevelt, Bat Masterson, Judge Roy Bean, Liver Eating Johnson, Doc Holliday, Ben Greenough, and more !!!!
You can see a copy of the picture here:
http://www.huntershotspri.../hhs1.html
Now you would think that such a photo would be a bargain at any price . . . And gee, it would be, if those folks were actually in the picture
In 1883, the reputed date of the photo, Morgan Earp had been dead for around a year. Butch Cassidy was around 17 years old at the time. The Sundance Kid was around 16 at the time. Ben Greenough first came to Montana in 1886, at the age of 17. Teddy Roosevelt, at 25, came west to North Dakota for three weeks in September 1883, but his buffalo hunts and ranch arrangements seem to have consumed his time, with no record of a quick trip into Montana. And so on and so on. All of this and more is verified at the web sites listed below.
Anyway, I thought I bring this up so that no one would be tempted to spend more than a couple bucks for the photo -it might worth that as conversation piece . . . but it's not worth big bucks as a piece of Montana's history.
Here's some more info on the photo, if you are interested:
http://www.huntershotspri...intro.html
http://ferncanyonpress.co...tana.shtml
http://www.maineantiquedi...to1201.htm
--Hal
You can see a copy of the picture here:
http://www.huntershotspri.../hhs1.html
Now you would think that such a photo would be a bargain at any price . . . And gee, it would be, if those folks were actually in the picture

In 1883, the reputed date of the photo, Morgan Earp had been dead for around a year. Butch Cassidy was around 17 years old at the time. The Sundance Kid was around 16 at the time. Ben Greenough first came to Montana in 1886, at the age of 17. Teddy Roosevelt, at 25, came west to North Dakota for three weeks in September 1883, but his buffalo hunts and ranch arrangements seem to have consumed his time, with no record of a quick trip into Montana. And so on and so on. All of this and more is verified at the web sites listed below.
Anyway, I thought I bring this up so that no one would be tempted to spend more than a couple bucks for the photo -it might worth that as conversation piece . . . but it's not worth big bucks as a piece of Montana's history.
Here's some more info on the photo, if you are interested:
http://www.huntershotspri...intro.html
http://ferncanyonpress.co...tana.shtml
http://www.maineantiquedi...to1201.htm
--Hal