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Description
Exceedingly rare stereoview showing what appears to be an armed African-American or Native American nestled on the Devil’s Promenade above the spring river in Indian Territory of Oklahoma. Two other armed white men our seen with him. This image was photographed by Watson Heston of Carthage, Missouri who was a noted American editorial cartoonist. There is a faint red stamped mark from the book dealer in Baxter Springs, Kansas.
This stereoview came from the collection of Robert Cauthen of Leesburg, Florida years ago. Mr. Cauthen was a good friend before his passing and the founding first member of the Stereoscopic club.
4 ½ x 7 inches
*Here is some information of Watson Heston:
Obituary from The Truth Seeker, March 4, 1905: "Watson Heston, the famous Freethought caricaturist [cartoonist], who was introduced to the Liberal pubic by The Truth Seeker twenty years ago, died at his home in Carthage, Mo., on Jan. 27, 1905. He was fifty-nine years old, and was a native of Ohio. Mr. Heston began illustrating for the Truth Seeker in 1886, and continued, with a short interruption, for about twelve years. The pictures were then discontinued on account of the expense of producing them, and because, though praised, they brought no returns corresponding with their cost. Mr. Heston had a brilliant mind, and had his execution been equal to his conceptions would have taken a place among the best caricaturists of his day....
He was a genial and companionable man, an able writer as well as artist, and a poet of considerable merit. He was fortunate in being happily married to the woman who survives him, and they never ceased to be inseparable lovers...
He has passed from a world that did not appreciate him, and with which he was himself dissatisfied. But he left it better than he found it. He did something to lessen the sum total of religious superstition, and to illustrate the benefits of Freethought. It is with genuine sorrow that we contemplate his life, which was embittered by ill health, disappointment, and at times with poverty; and his death, which removed one who was capable of good service to the Liberal cause and other reforms. To his devoted wife is extended that sympathy which is due to all who mourn."
Mr. Heston also was a photographer especially in the early years of his Carthage residency. Populist, Freethought and other related cartoons can be found through internet searches as well as his versions of The Bible. [Info provided by Powers Museum who does have a vertical file on Heston.]
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