Breaking Broncs With The Bow-Gun Boys
True West|July 2017

A famous pioneer photographer recounts the last busting at a historic Montana cow camp.

Meghan Saar
Breaking Broncs With The Bow-Gun Boys

Around 1885, George “Dick” Ingersoll helped drive a herd of longhorns from Texas to Montana Territory and settled in the Miles City area. Along Sunday Creek, he built up his Bow-Gun Ranch, the cow camp where famed Miles City photographer L.A. Huffman found himself at the turn of the 20th century. In both photographs and words, Huffman documented “The Last Busting at the Bow-Gun,” as he called his July 1907 article for Scribner’s Magazine.

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