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Cowboy on a Bronco is recorded in the C. M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné as reference number CR.PC.72.

According to Russell historian Frederic G. Renner, “Men who made a specialty of riding outlaw horses had a language all their own. Such cowboys were bronc busters, twisters, peelers, or bronc stompers, men who scorned to pull leather as their horse bucked, crawfished, came apart, jackknifed, pitched, rainbowed, sunfished, or tried to chin the moon.”

PROVENANCE
Katherine Bradford, Hamilton, Massachusetts
Present owner, by descent

EXHIBITED
How the West Was Won, Wildenstein & Co., New York, New York, 1968
Bradford Brinton Memorial Museum, Big Horn, Wyoming, 2011

Condition ReportViewed out of frame. Paper, mounted to a piece of mat board, is in excellent condition. Faint mat burns along right side of paper and along bottom edge.

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