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Title: Tomahawk & Western R.R. (fictional name) # 1 named "Emma Sweeny" (Rio Grande Southern 4-6-0 #20), flat car #21 (Denver & Rio Grande Western #1026, Caboose 0409 (Rio Grande Southern), combine 107 (D&RGW 212), Hermosa, Colo., above rd. x-ing on curve.
Creator(s): Richardson, Robert W.
Summary: A "Tomahawk &; Western Railroad" train (fictional railroad company), used in the movie "A Ticket to Tomahawk" travels near Hermosa (La Plata County), Colorado. The consist includes the "Emma Sweeny" (Rio Grande Southern locomotive #20), a flat car #21 (Denver and Rio Grande Western #1026), a caboose #0409 (Rio Grande Southern), and a combine car #107 (D.&.R.G.W. #212). Shows tree covered hillsides.
Date:1949 August 10
Notes: Title and date penciled on negative envelope.; R7004015073
Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
The Vidal familyCreator(s): Buckwalter, Harry H.Summary :Members of the Vidal family, seven women and one man, pose in front of a wood cabin on the set of a western movie. The women wear overalls and the man wears work pants and suspenders.
Date: August 2, 1902
Notes: "Photography - motion pictures "Girls in Overalls", Aug 2, 1902 The Vidal family who posed in the first western movie." handwritten on back of photoprint.
History Colorado, Buckwalter collection
no. 664
From Colorado Film commission:
Regis Vidal settled on a 725-acre ranch near Gunnison, Colorado. Eight daughters and one son were born. As the family grew up times became hard and the father was compelled to borrow $15,000 on the ranch. He fell into the clutches of a money-lending shark and the worry caused his death. A year later the mother died, leaving the children even more deeply in debt. With true Western spirit the children decided to work the ranch themselves.
Filmography info:
Year: 1904
Name: The Girls in the Overalls
Production Company : Selig Polyscope Company
Type Of Production: Documentary Short
Genre: Short, Documentary
Director: Harry H. Buckwalter
Location: Gunnison, Colorado