Earle Forrest collection, 1881-1971

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Earle Forrest collection, 1881-1971

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Earle R. Forrest (1883-1969) was a writer and historian from Pennsylvania who spent much of his young-adult life exploring the western United States in the early 1900s while working as a cowboy. The bulk of the collection relates to cowboys, cowboy life, Navajo and Hopi people, and the Old West in general. Predominantly photographic, the collection functions as an autobiography of his life from 1900-1968.

2112 photographic images (2106 prints, 279 glass-plate negatives, 980 nitrate negatives, 355 safety negatives), 94.3 cm textual material, 13 journals, 1 flag

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The Museum of Northern Arizona

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