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Coffrin's Old West Gallery - The Huffman Pictures
Description
During Huffman's photographic career he owned a number of studios. This one was rather unique in that it was built from lumber salvaged from the wrecked steamboat F.Y. Batchelor—one of the boats used on the Yellowstone River in the early 1800s to carry buffalo hides down the river.
In later years L.A. Huffman said of his own work, "Fate had it I should be Post Photographer with the Army during the Indian Campaigns, following annihilation of Custer's command. Round-about us in this Yellowstone, Big Horn land, unpenned of wire, unspoiled by railway, dam or ditch, un-kodaked, hunters, Red and white, exterminated for robes and tongues, the last great herds of Buffalo on this continent. With a crude homemade Camera, from saddle and in log shack, I saved something—built better than I knew. From the cabin collection of the late Seventies, the Huffman Pictures now number thousands. Those of the Indian and Leather Lodges, Buffalo ranging the Big Open, and early-day Cattle Round-ups are now historic."
