January, 1989, Cowboy Poetry Festival, Elko, Nevada

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.
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