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Famous People from
Dickens County, Texas.
The Unknown Cowboy from Dickens County,
Texas
| Do you recognize this West Texas cowboy? His
image has appeared in hundreds of magazines and
newspapers all over the world. In 1939, he was
working on a ranch near Spur, Texas when a
photographer with the Farm Security
Administration took these pictures. The
photos appeared in popular
national magazines and newspapers across the
country without naming the cowboy. While his image is famous, all that
is known about the young cowboy is that he was
working on the SMS Ranch in Dickens County when FSA photographer Russell Lee
took the photos. The title of
the photo on the right is, Cowboy on
horse with equipment on cattle ranch near Spur,
Texas. The photo on the left did not have a
title.
Russell Lee was one of eleven photographers who
were hired to document the plight of poor
farmers and ranchers as part of the Farm
Security Administration (FSA) in an effort to
combat American rural poverty. Many of the most
famous Depression-era photographers were
fostered by the FSA project. The project made
250,000 images of rural poverty. Fewer than half
of those images survive and are housed in the
Prints and Photographs Division of the Library
of Congress.
. . . for more like this please see
Texas Cowboy
History
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