Portraits from our road trip
July 26, 2008 – 3:03 pmI took a lot of photos on our recent road trip, including many portraits.
This is Evan Guthrie, in Shoshone, Idaho. He’s a cowboy wearing his hunting cap on his way to the town senior center. His son told him that he’s a distant relative of the singer, Arlo Guthrie. He didn’t really know who Arlo was, and had never heard of Woody.
I don’t know that she has a name. She’s not so vain that she can’t have a little smudge of dirt on her face and imperfectly applied lipstick. This beauty lives in the dining room of the Gooding, Idaho, Gooding Hotel Bed and Breakfast, which is on the national historic register, and owned by a descendant of the founder of the town. Gooding is about 75 miles from the Craters of the Moon National Monument, a place well worth visiting.
Gary Keene, along with his wife, Cathy, is the proprietor of Ancient Ways, the only privately owned shop in the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming. This is a wonderful place, with a great deal of native American art, and lots of examples of Gary’s taxidermy lining the walls. “Ancient Ways is a family business. As Cathy says, she’s probably related to half the people on the reservation.”
I took this photo of Tiffany Dunton, my daughter-in-law, at the Crazy Horse Memorial, in Custer, S.D. Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski and Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear officially started Crazy Horse Memorial June 3, 1948. The sculptor died in 1982, and his family has been carrying on the work ever since. I can’t help but compare this epic project with another close by, Mount Rushmore. Mount Rushmore was developed as a means to promote tourism, whereas the Crazy Horse Memorial’s “mission is to honor the culture, tradition, and living heritage of North American Indians.”