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Item Title   William Russell, Ahto Bear Ground, and Herb Griffin with Photographer   Unknown Abstract   A photo of three men kneeling behind a dead deer. The man on the right is holding up the buck by the tines of it's antlers. The men appear to have bagged more than one animal as there is a portion of a carcass seen hanging behind them from a tree limb. This image was used by author Ivan Doig in the creative process of the fictional town of Gros Ventre. Note   There are three pasted typewritten notes on front of the photo that read: "William Russell educated at Haskell; later a tribal judge at Crow Agency; Ahto (Spelling?) Bear Ground Wyola, Montana; former tribal police officer, Herb Griffin, Billings". Genre   photographs Type of Resource   still image Multimedia or Document Length   1 black & white photograph (front & back) Item Format   application/pdf Item Filename   2602-B163-F12-img4385.pdf Collection Series Number   Series 8 - Photographs Date Created   1950/1955 Table of Contents   William Russell--Ahto Bear Ground--Herb Griffin Related Topics Literary journeys Novelists, American Portrait photography Photograph Geographic Locations Wyola Big Horn County Montana United States Rights   http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

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William Russell, Ahto Bear Ground, and Herb Griffin with, Ivan Doig Archive - Digital Collection, Montana State University (MSU) Library, Bozeman, MT, https://n2t.net/ark:/75788/m44286

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