Sep
16
Can You Spot Ollie the Cowboy?
I have been working on Chapter 8 of my book for several weeks now, and just when I thought I was nearly done with it this afternoon, I was temporarily distracted by an extraordinary photo I found online.
I found the photo on a website about William N. Selig, a motion picture industry pioneer from Chicago. Taken in November 1912 at the Selig Polyscope Company studio in Chicago (one of the first motion picture studios in the country), the photo shows Selig shaking hands with Chief John Two Guns White Calf, leader of the Blackfeet tribe.
And the mostly shadowed face just above White Calf’s head? That belongs to my great-grandfather, G. Oliver Riggs, who is posing as a cowboy.
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I found the photo on a website about William N. Selig, a motion picture industry pioneer from Chicago. Taken in November 1912 at the Selig Polyscope Company studio in Chicago (one of the first motion picture studios in the country), the photo shows Selig shaking hands with Chief John Two Guns White Calf, leader of the Blackfeet tribe.
And the mostly shadowed face just above White Calf’s head? That belongs to my great-grandfather, G. Oliver Riggs, who is posing as a cowboy.
G.