The Texas Cowboy - 1886 - Fine Art Print

"All in a Day's Work..." An image can't get any more Texas than this!...yet very few people have ever seen it. It was produced by an unknown artist in 1886 for the cover of a piece of sheet music published by Thomas Goggan, a Galveston music mogul.  He was obviously trying to catch the coattails of Charlie Siringo's huge success with his book, A Texas Cow Boy, published the previous year.  The imagery and timing are striking. Here is the cowboy way of life depicted in fine detail, just as barbed wire and the railroads were ending the great cattle drives. It's bittersweet if you think about it. It's incredibly rare. There are only nine known copies. If artwork sold music, that might be a different story. For whatever reason the song was not a hit. From what we can discern 130+ years later, a single batch was printed and that was that. Which is a shame, because in the last century, only a few people combing archives have laid eyes on this incredible piece of Texas iconography. I wish I