Call No: P442-A3p
Description: Billy Custer and Lee Larrabee
Date of origin: 1888-1890
Type: Print
Size: 5
Condition: Very Good
Content:
[front] II
[back] II ; THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK ; Return To HARRY E. CHRISMAN 10245 W. 14th Ave. Denver, Colo. 80215 [Return To HARRY E. CHRISMAN 10245 W. 14th Ave. Denver, Colo. 80215 is circled]
[note] Q. What prompted businessmen to start up a mercantile store on the vast expanse of prairie in the West?
A. Businessmen usually “picked a spot” where they felt the ranchers and settlers would come to them, [would come to them, is underlined] for example along a new railroad, or at a river ford, or at a point where cattle shipments brought trade. This rancher-businessman and his store clerk showed great faith in building along the Cimarron River, in Kansas, in 1888-9. At left, in derby hat, BIlly Custer; Right, Lee Larrabee. —- Photo from author’s collection ; II
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Miscellaneous Info.:
Photo is of two men sitting in a buggy with two horses hitched to it. They are standing still in front of a huge building.
Other Info.: “The 1000 Most Asked Questions about the American West”
Related to: M/F5 (Billy Custer and Lee Larrabee), N205-A3p (Billy Custer and Lee Larrabee), P439-D1a3 (Butchering on Custer Ranch Cimarron River),
Subject: Billy Custer and Lee Larrabee, business, horses, mercantile store, Store,