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Henry Robinson Locke (1867 – August 22, 1927) was an American photographer in the 19th and 20th century who photographed the ''
Wild West The American frontier, also known as the Old West, and popularly known as the Wild West, encompasses the geography, history, folklore, and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that bega ...
''. He ran a studio in
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. He photographed the
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area, Deadwood,
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Indians, farmers, miners, railroads, but also
Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary (May 1, 1856 – August 1, 1903), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American American frontier, frontierswoman, Exhibition shooting, sharpshooter, sex worker, and storyteller. In addition to many exploits, she was known f ...
(1885) and the Little Big Horn battlefield (1894).


Personal life and death

Locke was born in 1867 in Pennsylvania. He died in 1927 in
Sheridan, Wyoming Sheridan is a city in the U.S. state of Wyoming and the county seat of Sheridan County, Wyoming, Sheridan County. The city is located halfway between Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone Park and Mount Rushmore by U.S. Route 14 in Wyoming, U.S. ...
.


Gallery


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Locke, H. R. American photographers 19th-century American photographers 1856 births 1927 deaths