1800s Mule Deer Huntress......

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25 February 2017, 04:09

Gatogordo

1800s Mule Deer Huntress......

Note the mass....

Standing over one of her many trophy mule deer, subsistence-and-sport huntress Gusty Wallihan appears every inch the frontier matron with her dressy bonnet, prairie-pattern cartridge belt, floral-embroidered gauntlets, hunting knife, and Remington-Hepburn rifle. 1895

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25 February 2017, 07:15

Snellstrom

Very Cool old picture!
I really enjoy historic western photos.

25 February 2017, 09:47

georgeld

Dandy buck too

George

25 February 2017, 15:57

don444

25 February 2017, 17:13

buckeyeshooter

very nice!

25 February 2017, 18:23

Crazyhorseconsulting

Really neat picture.

26 February 2017, 08:18

perry

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gatogordo:
Note the mass....

I don't think she would appreciate that comment.

Perry

26 February 2017, 08:29

Thomas "Ty" Beaham

26 February 2017, 21:37

Mark Clark

Must be a fake picture.

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28 February 2017, 20:50

impala#03

Telescopic sight you can see craters on the moon with. Laser rangefinder that does the same.

28 February 2017, 21:35

Grenadier

From Images in America - Steamboat Springs
By David H. Ellis, Catherine H. Ellis

The story of big-game hunting along the Yampa would be incomplete without mention of Mary Augusta Wallihan, seen above. Fortunately, "Gusty" wrote as well as she shot, and her husband could use a camera. Together they published many accounts of their hunts, including an 1891 incident when she dropped two big mule deer with one shot. She wrote, "I'll confess I was a little selfish -- I wanted both bucks very much. As I had lost the large one [earlier] I thought two with one shot would please my husband very much."

Photo credit is given as Tread of Pioneers Museum, Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

I'm guessing the cartridges are .38-40 Remington Hepburn. What do you think?

01 March 2017, 11:28

Cougarz

That's a great photo and story, thanks for posting.

01 March 2017, 17:48

Bill/Oregon

Gren, I think those cartridges are bigger than .38-40 -- maybe .44-90 or even .45-100.

01 March 2017, 17:55

35whelenman

I'm more impressed by the fact she could hunt the Southwest terrain in that dress.

01 March 2017, 18:13

Bill/Oregon

Did some Googling. Mary Augusta Wallihan and her husband, photographer A.G. Wallihan, were well known in the Yampa River country around Steamboat Springs, Colorado. She apparently wrote about many of her hunts, accompanied with photos by her husband.
She describes an incident in 1891 where she missed a big buck, then decided to please her husband by killing two mule deer with one shot.
There is an Augusta Wallihan Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Craig, Colo.

02 March 2017, 23:22

Atkinson

I love old hunting pictues, I have a few old hunting pictures and some Texas Ranger photos..Great stuff.

02 March 2017, 23:38

Grenadier

Someday, maybe someone will look at our hunting pictures and say, "I love old hunting pictures".

03 March 2017, 02:17

Gracedog

Now, how the hell did she kill that buck with that rifle? I thought you needed a rangefinder, moonscope, and a cartridge no smaller than a 300RUM!

03 March 2017, 02:24

Slider

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Now, how the hell did she kill that buck with that rifle? I thought you needed a rangefinder, moonscope, and a cartridge no smaller than a 300RUM!

And the latest Camo!!!

03 March 2017, 02:53

Bill/Oregon

Racedog, the same way Fred Bear killed stuff with a recurve bow, wood arrows, no pin sights and nothing but wool plaid for camo.

05 March 2017, 17:23

curveball

Probably a 40-2.5" Sharps Straight and it is only prop.

To save expensive ammo she probably killed the deer with the knife.

15 March 2017, 19:04

Big Wonderful Wyoming

We visited the Western Trails Center in Casper, and the wife looked over some of the bonnets they had for sale.

She told me that was probably the best sun hat she ever seen, and this is a red haired woman that wears big floppy sun hats all the time.

She said she wouldn't wear it, but she bought some little ones and makes our toddler girls wear them.

19 March 2017, 18:30

boarkiller

I wonder how far you could walk in that dress through miles of sagebrush
But then again, mule deer in many areas is pretty easy pickings

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