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January, 1989, Cowboy Poetry Festival, Elko, Nevada

Posted in Photos by William Poole on May 13, 2008

Have begun scanning some older negatives from my Detours feature, which appeared in the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle years back.  I was hired to write the series (based on travels around Northern California) as a regular freelancer, but because it was a union shop I joined the Newspaper Guild as a part time employee and was paid so much per hour for so many hours for each piece.  The editors asked how they would illustrate the pieces and I offered to take pictures.  I recall that it was 30 below zero in Elko on the weekend this image was made.  Someday I will dig out my notes from the trip and add to this post the names of this man and his son.