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Famous “Cowboy Funeral” Photo and its Connection to our Great Grandfather!

Famous “Cowboy Funeral” Photo and its Connection to our Great Grandfather! How cool is this? As we were eating lunch today at the Cowboy Capital Saloon and Grill in Dodge City, Kansas, we looked up and saw a familiar photo!! There hanging on the wall was the widely famous “Cowboy Funeral” photo that we were very familiar with! This 3’x6’ photo showed a large group of cowboys standing around a freshly dug grave. Here’s the story. According to the website in the attached link, the photo captures the funeral of George Brenton, a young cowboy who died during a roundup in 1891 in Baca County, which is located in the southeast corner of Colorado. Brenton rode for the JJ Ranch, a sprawling outfit that ranged across much of Baca County. On the day of his death, Brenton and nine other JJ cowboys were working the roundup for the Reynolds Cattle Company with about 20 other cowboys under foreman and wagon boss Walter Dunn. It was said Brenton’s horse stumbled while fording the juncture of East and West Carrizo creeks, falling upon the hapless cowboy. However, some maintained that the young buckaroo, perhaps heartbroken over a love that had gone sour, intentionally drowned his sorrows, and himself, in the Carrizo. After Brenton’s body was pulled from the water, he was taken to Carrizo Springs Cemetery for burial – behind the two tethered horses on the left side of the photo one can see an existing grave built up with carefully stacked flagstone to deter varmints. At the time of this photo, Brenton had been laid into his hastily dug grave, a few words undoubtedly uttered by Dunn, the range boss (the mustachioed cowboy standing on the far left), and perhaps a few of Brenton’s friends, and a mound of dirt piled atop the grave. After posing with hats off for a solemn moment, it was back to work for these cowboys. This photo stands out because it was very rare to have photographers out in the field during roundups. And it almost unheard of to have a photographer at a cowboy funeral. In the video, we added the photo that the photographer took of the young cowboy crossing the river a few moments before his horse throws him and he drowns. What’s cool is that after the funeral photo was taken, there were a lot of questions as to who all was in the photo. Since our great grandfather, Red Cockrum, rode with most of those cowboys, he was able to identify the rest of the men in the photo! https://nationalcowboymuseum.org/blog... #dodgecity #cowboy #cowboys #trailride #history