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THE SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1940
At 97, H. Jackson, Pioneer
Photographer, Looks Back Over His 80
Years' Recording (and Making) History
March of the Mormon “Handcart Battalion” over the Oregon Trail. From the painting by W. H. Jackson.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON - ■
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
T WO recent events have brought into the limelight again
one of the most remarkable Americans living today.
One was the announcement from Scottsbluff, Neb.,
that William H. Jackson, 97-year-old photographer-painter-
historian, had given to the Oregon Trail Memorial associa
tion a collection of 100 paintings and water colors, represent
ing Mr. Jackson’s work of the last 40 years and based upon
his photographs and sketches of the Old West from 1866 to
1872. The other was the publication by G. P. Putnam’s Sons,
New York publishers, of Mr. Jackson’s autobiography under
the highly-appropriate title of “Time Exposure.”
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Autobiographies of men who
had a part in pushing the
frontier westward are no
rarities. But it is doubtful
if any of them have had a
longer, more distinguished
and more interesting career
than the author of “Time Ex
posure.” It began away back
in 1843 when he was born near
the little town of Keeseville,
N. Y., the son of a blacksmith
and carriage-builder, who,
soon after the daguerreotyp-
ing process was discovered in
1839, began experimenting
with a camera of his own.
This fact was prophetic of his
son’s future career, for, as he re
calls it: “Parts of the first cam
era ever owned by a Jackson
came into my hands as a toy
when I was a very small boy. I
hadn’t any real idea what the
lens-box was intended for; but 1
got the feel of a camera almost
before I could walk. It may sound
foolish, yet I can’t help believing
that this childhood experience
helped to direct my life. An un
doubted influence was my moth
er’s gift with pencil and water-
co! ,r. I can hardly remember
the time when I didn’t draw pic
tures. It was something without
beginning—and is still without an
end.” For that fact Americans
should be grateful. Had it not
been for the camera and the pen
cil, paint brush and palette of
William H. Jackson we v/ould not
have nearly so clear an idea of
the Old West as we do.
Started at Fifteen.
At the age of 15, young Jackson
turned his artistic skill to good
account. He began making win
dow cards for merchants, plac
ards announcing church sociables
and posters for political rallies.
Then he got a job as a retoucher
for the leading photographer in
Troy, N. Y., where the Jackson
family was living, and learned a
great deal about the new art of
photography. A similar job in
Rutland, Vt., increased his knowl
edge of the subject but the out
break of the Civil war brought a
change in his occupation.
Jackson enlisted in the Rutland
Light Guard, was mustered into
Federal service in 1862 and be
came a soldier in the Army of
the Potomac. Even in the army
he had time to continue his draw
ing, most of it on small cards.
“That practice has brought me a
small fame—which is, I regret
to say, quite undeserved,” he
writes. “Somehow or other the
legend has grown up that I am
the ‘inventor’ of the picture post
card. I don’t know who really
devised the first picture postal
(a German or an Austrian, I
think) but I am not the man.”
However, he has plenty of other
claims to distinction without that.
Jackson’s experiences during the
war included the battle of Gettys
burg although, as he frankly
states, his was a minor part. His
regiment was assigned to guard
the baggage trains behind the
lines so he missed the actual fight
ing but afterwards his outfit es
corted 2,300 Confederate prison
ers to Fort McHenry near Balti
more. Incidentally, 75 years lat
er J ackson was one of four of its
veterans—two Union and two Con
federate soldiers—who flew over
the battlefield in an airplane,
broadcast from it their remin
iscences of that historic conflict
and strewed roses over the graves
of their fallen comrades in the
National cemetery there.
He Goes West.
Mustered out of the Union serv
ice at the end of his enlistment,
Jackson returned to Vermont,
took up again his work as an
“artist” in F. Styles’ “Vermont
Gallery of Art,” became engaged
to a charming young girl and
when that engagement ended in
a lovers’ quarrel, he decided to
follow the advice so often attrib
uted to Horace Greeley—“Go
West!” (“Horace Greeley’s ad
vice was far too obvious to be
startling,” he observes succinct
ly. “Go West? Of course go west.
Where else?”) He arrived at St.
Joseph, Mo., the “jumping-off
place” for the frontier in 1866
WILLIAM H. JACKSON
and for the next three-quarters of
a century his life was to be inti
mately bound up with the history
of the West.
Jackson secured a job as a
bull-whacker with a wagon train
that was departing from Nebras
ka City up the Missouri river for
the Montana mining camps. That
was the last year of “covered
wagon” migration across the
Plains (the railroad was already
pushing west and would soon sup
plant the prairie schooner) and
Jackson’s first trip over the Ore
gon traU was made in company
of 300 Mormons and other immi
grants who banded together for
protection against hostile Indi
ans. (In after years, Jackson
was to go over the trail, or parts
of it, in other forms of transpor
tation—train, automobile and air.
plane).
In Wyoming he left the Mon
tana-bound train, went to Salt
Lake City and, after three months
there, joined a mule train for Cali
fornia which brought him at last
to Los Angeles, “a town of less
than 5,060, which had in 1867 all
the charm it lacks today . . . Los
Angeles was honestly quaint,
rather than merely blatant.” Soon
afterwards he started east again
—this time with a party of nine
persons starting out on the peril
ous task of driving a band of 200
wild mustangs back across the
mountains and plains to the Mis
souri river settlements.
This three-months’ trek ended
at Julesburg, Colo., where the
horses were loaded on a train
and shipped to Omaha. Here
Jackson obtained a job with some
local photographers whom he
later bought out. In the spring
of 1868 his brother, Ed, came on
from Troy to join him and the
firm of “Jackson Brothers, Pho
tographers” started business in
the little frontier city. Later Ed
withdrew from the firm and Wil
liam became the sole proprietor
of the business.
Photographer of the Frontier.
During the next 12 years Jack-
son firmly established his reputa
tion as the foremost photographer
of the American frontier. Load
ing his bulky apparatus for mak
ing pictures by the old wet plate
process on pack mules or horses
he traveled far and wide over
the plains and mountains of the
West, securing thousands of neg
atives ranging in size from stere
oscopic views to huge ones meas
uring 20 by 24 inches.
Some of his greatest work was
done while accompanying the ex
peditions known officially as the
"United States Geological Survey
of the Territories” which began in
1869 under the leadership of Dr.
F. V. Hayden and continued for
the next nine years. During this
time he took pictures of Indians
which are priceless historical rec
ords of the red man in his na
tive state, untouched by the white
man’s so-called “civilization,”
and views of the magnificent
Western scenery never before
pictured and, in some cases, nev
er before visited by white men.
In fact, the list of Jackson’s
“firsts” is an impressive one. He
took the first photographs in what
is now Yellowstone park—and the
showing of these pictures had
much to do with the establish
ment of the national park there.
He took the first pictures of the
cliff dwellings in the Southwest
and of the famed Mount of the
Holy Cross in Colorado. (Inci
dentally, it was one of Jackson’s
photographs of this mountain
which inspired one of Longfel
low’s best-beloved poems.)
The full record of his amazing
career is too long to be con
densed within the scope of this
article. Some of his activities
and adventures can only be hint
ed at—his work as a photogra
pher for various railroads, his 18-
months’ picture-taking trip around
the world for Harper’s Weekly,
including a 3,500-mile trip by pony
sledge across Siberia in the mid
dle of winter; his career as head
of the Detroit Publishing compa
ny which made post cards and
other pictures in color. (Its col
lection of nearly 40,000 negatives
are now in the Ford museum at
Dearborn, Mich ) In 1929 he was
named research secretary of the
Oregon Trail Memorial associa
tion. The next few years found
him—now nearing 90—going over
the old trail again, sr ipping pic
tures, this time with a “vest pock
et” camera, and doing some more
painting.
Three times William H. Jack-
son has tried to “retire”—once
at 60, again at 81 and “finally” at
92. But it was no use—in 1935
the department of the interior
commissioned him to paint a se
ries of murals for its new build
ing in Washington and he did it.
Two years later he was again
busy taking pictures. It came
about thus:
In 1937 the surviving members
of the G. A. R. met on River
side drive for what was to be
their last Memorial day parade.
When Comrade Bill Jackson
didn’t show up, some of the aged
Boys in Blue shook their heads
sadly—“Too bad Bill can’t he
here.” But a few minutes later
they saw him—running up and
down along the street with press
photographers, taking pictures of
the parade!
William H. Jackson spoke truly
when he said of his picture-mak
ing career: “It was something
without beginning—and is still
without an end.”
LJ OW good a swinger is Sammy
Snead compared to the best of
all time? Snead has yet to win a
national crown and yet many, in
cluding Bobby
Jones, pick the West
Virginian as one of
the top stylists since
the first Scotchman
socked a rock with
a shepherd’s crook
and complained of
the greens.
Snead may be the
“dream swinger” to
many, but he isn’t
to Jimmie Donald
son, an able stylist _ ..
of his own and one Grimtland Rice
of the top instructors of the game.
In rating Snead as highly as we
have, Jimmie thinks your corre
spondent is a trifle curious in the
cupola—as follows—
An Expert Disagrees
Dear Grant:
I happened to see your article
about Sammy Snead. How a man
like you who has seen as much golf
as you have can compare Sammy
Snead's swing, which has a decided
loop (which is preventing him from
winning big tournaments), with a
great swing like Harry Vardon’s
baffles me.
What do you mean about Hagen,
Sarazen and J. H. Taylor being
swingers? They certainly were not
swingers, but decided hitters. And
if you are writing on the subject of
swingers, how can you possibly
overlook Byron Nelson who, I per
sonally think, is a much better
swinger, and better grooved, than
Snead has been last two years.
To the layman your article might
appeal, but to someone like myself
’who knows a little about it, it is
really funny.
Sincerely yours,
Jimmie Donaldson
And in Rebuttal—
Dear Jimmie—
I know of few golfers who swing
a golf club better than you do—or
few who know as much about the
old game. But I can’t agree with
you about Sammy Snead. You say
he has a loop in his swing? So did
Bobby Jones. Do you know a better
swinger? Yet only a few days ago
Bobby Jones told me that in his
opinion Snead had the best all
around swing with every club that
he had ever seen—and Bob played
with Vardon as far back as 1920.
Bobby Jones was referring to the
physical makeup of Snead’s swing,
not to his mental attitude in a cham
pionship.
Snead gets amazing results with
little show of effort, of extra effort.
Snead’s downfall has never been due
to any fault in his swing—only to
his inability to concentrate—only to
nis mental attitude, which as you
kuow is 70 per cent of golf.
I played with Bobby Jones four
days ago and he had a 65. I still
got a thrill from the slow, smooth
beauty of his swing. Bob still in
sists that Snead is the top. The dif
ference is that Bobby could always
concentrate and keep full control of
his mental and nerve resources.
Snead can’t. Yet remember this—
in his last four big tournaments,
Snead has won three and reached
the final hole against Nelson in the
last P. G. A.
I have seen Snead hit many a
golf ball, but I have yet to see
any “decided loop.”
Hagen and Nelson
Continuing our correspondence, I
hate to disagree with an expert of
your rank. But to my mind Walter
Hagen is a better swinger than
most. Hagen in his prime was one
of the ideal swingers.
Sarazen, with his stocky build, is
more of a hitter than a swinger.
We agree here. Sarazen doesn’t
think Snead has any loop, but he is
afraid Snead is getting a trifle flat
in his back swing.
“The greatest fault in golf today,’’
Sarazen says.
As for swingers—how about Henrj
Picard? Winning temperament—no.
But a great golfer and a great
swinger. Snead has had a bettei
three or four-year record than Mac
Donald Smith. Did you ever see a
finer swinger than Mac Smith? Yet
Mac Smith through 25 years never
won a national title.
Here was the great crime of all
golf. Mac Smith with the golfing
temperament of Walter Hagen or
Byron Nelson would have won at
least six championships. Imagine
Sammy Snead with the mental atti
tude of a Hagen or a Nelson—of
the tremendous concentration of a
Bobby Jones—
Even as it is, I believe Sammj
Snead will still astonish the world
of golf. Watch him!
Swing Still Secondaqr
If you are thinking in terms of
swingers I’ll give you my list—Bob
by Jones, Harry Vardon, Sammy
Snead, Walter Hagen, Mac Smith,
Henry Picard and Paul Runyan. It
also so happens that winning cham
pionship golf belongs even more in
the heart and above the shoulders
than it does in the technique of any
swing.
What about Byron Nelson, one of
our best through many years? Nel
son is a good swinger, who once in
a while gets his left wrist tied up.
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Apple Pie.
% cup shortening’
V* cup boiling water
1% cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
V* teaspoon baking powder
4 to 5 tart apples (peeled and
sliced)
% cup sugar
Dash cinnamon or nutmeg
Place shortening in a warm bowl,
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sieve and sift
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creamed shorten
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degrees) for 10 minutes; then reduce
oven heat to 350 degrees and bake
approximately 35 minutes longer.
Serve warm with a wedge of cheese.
Golden Carrot Ring.
(Serves 5-6)
I tablespoon onion (minced)
3 tablespoons butter
1 cup soft bread crumbs
2 eggs (well beaten)
cups milk
2 cups raw carrots (grated)
1 teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
Brown the onion in the butter. Re
move from fire, and add crumbs.
Place in a mixing bowl, and add
well-beaten eggs. Mix well. Add
milk, carrots, salt and pepper. Pour
into well greased ring mold and
bake in a moderate oven (350 de
grees) for about 40 minutes. Turn
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Staffed Ham Steak.
(Serves 5-6)
2 cups soft bread crumbs
% cup seeded raisins (chopped)
% cup walnut meats (broken)
Vi cup brown sugar
% teaspoon dry mustard
Vi cup butter (melted)
| 2 large slices smoked ham (% inch
thick)
Whole cloves
Combine the crumbs, raisins,
nuts, sugar, mustard, and butter to
form a dressing. Place one slice of
ham in a shallow baking pan, and
spread dressing on the ham. Place
a second slice of ham on top. Stick
whole cloves into the fat. Bake in
a slow oven (300 degrees) for about
1 hour.
Dutch Cream Cookies.
(Makes 4 dozen)
% cup butter
% cup sugar
1 egg
Vi cup sour cream
Vi teaspoon soda
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon lemon extract
Cream butter and add sugar. Add
egg and beat thoroughly. Dissolve
soda in cream and add to mixture.
Add flour to make a dough which
can be easily handled. Chill over
night. When firm, slice into thin
slices. Bake in a moderate oven
(350 degrees) for 10 to 12 minutes.
Date Butterscotch Pudding.
(Serves 5-6)
2 cups brown sugar (light)
3 tablespoon: -ornstarch
Vt teaspoon salt
Vi cup cold water
1 cup boiling water
1 egg
3 tablespoons butter
Vi cup dates (chopped)
Combine brown sugar, cornstarch,
salt, and cold water. Add boiling
water and cook
until thickened,
stirring constant
ly. Remove from
range and pour
over slightly
beaten egg. Cook
about a minute longer. Add butter
and dates. Pour into sherbet glasses
and chill before serving. Serve plain
or garnished with whipped cream.
Cinnamon Apple Salad.
(Serves 5)
2 cups granulated sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1% cups water
Red vegetable coloring
5 medium sized apples (peeled and
cored)
Bring sugar, cinnamon, and wa
ter to the boiling point and add suf
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ture bright red color. Drop apples
(peeled and cored) into boiling syrup
and cook until apples are tender but
firm. Remove and chill.
Serve on bed of water cress and
fill core of apple with diced celery
and chopped nuts. Serve with roque-
fort dressing.
Scrambled Eggs and Mushrooms.
(Serves 5)
2 tablespoons butter
6 eggs (slightly beaten)
Vi cup milk or mushroom liquor
1 cup canned mushrooms (sliced)
Vi teaspoon salt
Dash pepper
Heat butter in frying pan over
low burner. Combine eggs, milk or
mushroom liquor, sliced mushrooms
and seasonings, and pour into frying
pan. As mixture cooks, stir with a
spatula, forming creamy flakes.
Cook for about 5 minutes, or until
eggs are firm but tender.
Bacon Baked Spaghetti.
(Serves 6-8)
Vi package spaghetti
6 slices bacon
% cup raw onion (cut fine)
ZVt cups tomatoes
1 cup cheese (grated)
Vt teaspoon salt
Vi teaspoon pepper
Boil spaghetti until tender in boil
ing salted water. Drain. Cut bacon
in small pieces
and fry until light
brown in color.
Butter casserole,
and place alter
nate layers of
spaghetti, bacon,
onion, tomatoes,
and cheese in the
casserole. Season each layer with
salt and pepper, cover top layer with
grated cheese and dot with butter.
Bake approximately 30 minutes iii
a moderately slow oven (325 de
grees).
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