Robert G. McCubbin Western Photographs

The collection is comprised of 47 historic photographs featuring people and places in the late 1800s American West.

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: ["The bullwhackeress”]; On Back: Grabill has on display a couple of views showing the lady familiarly known as, “the bullwhackeress” in the operation of cutting an ox in two with a whip. This woman’s name is Knudson or Canuteson. She is married, her husband driving a ten-yoke team of bulls, and they have both been on the road between Pierre and the Black Hills for six or seven years. Hers is a familiar figure in this country, and the crack of her whip a familiar sound. The couple drive their own teams – about fifteen yoke of cattle with five or six wagons – and are reputed to be worth some little money – From the Record, Sturgis, Dakota, Nov. 25, 1887.”