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Folks, sooner or later -
Genealogists are going to realize that their family kinfolks are
laying on some dealer's dusty shelves. If I can contribute to
finding one little name or photo of that long lost ancestor you
have been waiting to find,- its worth all the time I
spend.
FACTUAL PRESENTATION
OF OUR WESTERN TREASURES
LON
MEGARGEE
MAVERICK
PAINTER
Folks, in his youth, Lon
Megargee worked as a free-lance cowboy, exhibition roper, poker
dealer, and bronco buster in Arizona and then went east again to
study art in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
and to New York at the Art Students League and Pratt
Institute.
He returned to Arizona,
living in Cave Creek, Salt River Canyon, Phoenix and the last years
of his life near Sedona. His Phoenix home later became a popular
hotel and dining place called the Hermosa
Inn.
Megargee was a ranch
owner and also did oil canvases of the places he loved and the
cowboy life he admired. Among the earliest resident artists, by
1910, he was probably the best known artist in Arizona. His name
was first associated with a landscape series of 15 large murals for
the Capitol Building, newly constructed just after Arizona became a
state in 1912. Another one of his paintings, "Elemental," was the
first painting by an artist living in Arizona to be acquired for
the Municipal Collection of Phoenix. These works were chosen from
entries in the State Fair, where he continued to win prizes for
figure and landscape painting.
From 1911 to 1953, he did
numerous commission works for the Santa Fe Railroad, including a
work titled "Navajos Watching a Santa Fe Train." Between 1915 and
1930, he also painted in the Los Angeles area of California and had
entries in the California State Fair. He died in Cottonwood,
Arizona. After his death, the "Saturday Evening Post" published a
double-page reproduction of his painting "Cowboy's Dream."
(Courtesy of Google)
Lon Megargee, ran away from home at 13 and headed west in
1896 led by his zest for the wild and adventuresome life. There he
established a reputation as a cowboy painter and illustrator with
work most associated with Arizona Brewing Company ads featuring
humorous aspects of cowboy life. There were many a western story
published ? the common ones about cowboy and Indians are listed on
Ebay every day but the rarer ones - like this Special Anniversary
Issue Western Edition featuring the life and work of the artist Lon
Mdgargee never make it. Collectors treasure them because they
contain special stories not seen in other issues. They are hard to
find. I hunt them out because really the better, untold and rarer
stories were published in the rest.
Here?s one of
?em.
FOLLOWING PURCHASE AND PAYMENT, IF YOU WILL WRITE ME OF
YOUR SPECIAL NAME OR INTEREST, I WILL DO A FREE SEARCH OF MY
WEBSITE AND UNINDEXED STORIES AND
NAMES.
WWW.GENEALOGYIMAGESOFHISTORY.COM
IF I FIND SOMETHING THAT I THINK MERITS YOUR INTEREST, I
WILL WRITE A REVIEW AND PLACE IT ON EBAY AND GIVE YOU NOTICE AND A
HEAD START TO
BUYITNOW!
Following my retirement,
I have dedicated my remaining hours to indexing the Genealogy of
our western pioneers. During my research, I discovered that
thousands of our kinfolk lay unfound and unrecognized on some book
dealer?s shelf gathering dust. Because Old Western art History and
Memorabilia was printed before computer indexing, I index every
item I sell.
This complete index will be bound and included in this
offering at no additional
cost.
Humbly, I am trying to keep our history
alive
I hope you appreciate the
effort.
LON
MEGARGEE
MAVERICK
PAINTER
By Eva
Ball
ANCESTORS INDEXED
HEREIN, CIRCA 1883 ?
1960
ANCESTOR?S LOCATION:
PENNSYLVANIA, CUBA,
ARIZONA
GENEALOGY NAMES INDEXED w * INDICATING
PICTURE:
ARMOUR,
Frank
ARNOLD,
Oren
BALL, Eva,
Author
BUFFALO
BILL
COOK,
Billy
EDWARDS,
Charlie
EDWARDS, Judge, father of Charlie
Edwards
GEORGE,
Dutch
GODDARD,
Mr.
GODDARD,
Mrs.
HUBBELLS
HUNT, George W. P., Governor of
Arizona
KRAFT,
Harry
MEGARGEE, Lon (Alonso)
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MEGARGEE, Mr., father of Lon
Megargee
PETERS,
Dave
SINGLETON, Tex, Champion Bronc
Buster
UNCLE
SIMON
VILLA,
Hernando
PICTURES AND
DESCRIPTIONS w * INDICATING
PICTURE:
Picture 1: Lon Megargee.
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Picture 2: ?The Cowboy?s Dream,? painting by Megargee,
commissioned by the A-1 Brewing Company.
*
Picture 3: Casa Hermosa, designed and built by Lon
Megargee.
*
Picture 4: Megargee?s home faces the Camelback
Mountains, Arizona.
*
Picture 5: Lon Magargee, cowboy artist who tried to live
up to the East?s image of the wild West.
*
Picture 6: ?Home on the Ranch,? the canvas that made
Megargee famous.
*
Picture 7: Lon on his horse.
*
PLACES AND THINGS
PROMINENTLY MENTIONED w * INDICATING
PICTURE:
A-1 Brewing
Company
Agua
Prieta
Arizona
Biltmore
?Black Bart,? painting
by Lon
Megargee
Black Canyon
Road
Bull Ranch
Headquarters
Camelback Mountains,
Arizona
*
Casa Hermosa
*
Chicago
?Tribune?
?Cowboy and His Lady,?
painting by Lon
Megargee
Cuba
Denver
?Post?
?Desert Song,? painting
by Lon
Megargee
El Rancho Cinco
Uno
Globe,
Arizona
Globe-Payson
Road
Graham-Tewksbury
Feud
Grand
Canal
Grunow Clinic in
Phoenix
?Home on the Ranch,?
painting by Lon Megargee
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Hopi
Villages
Navajos
Norristown,
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Phoenix,
Arizona
Sonora,
Mexico
Spain
Supreme Court Chamber
in the Arizona
Capital
?The Cowboy?s Dream,?
painting by Lon Megargee
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Tonto
Basin
TT Ranch in New River
Country
Wickenburg,
Arizona
LON
MEGARGEE
MAVERICK
PAINTER
LON MEGARGEE MEMORABILIA
IS RAPIDLY
DISAPPEARING
While others clip ads
from magazines, I save history. It?s a shame that our past is being
lost. It?s as simple as
that.
My wife kids me that after I find a piece I like, buy
it, read it, research it, take a picture, scan it, write the blurb,
pay the Ebay entry fee and commission, that I end up making about
50 cents an hour. But, OH HOW I LOVE THIS OLD WESTERN HISTORY. What
a story, Rare Story!!! Great Pictures. You will love it as it was
published in this old complete western magazine of many years ago.
The issue is in good condition, the cover is in vibrant
color.
As clearly stated in my description, this is featured
story in a rarely found and seldom read unusual and complete
western magazine. I don't give out name of publication or date
because I have caught competitors copying my index and work and
trying to sell it as theirs. I hope you
understand.
Buyer pays postage of $3.00 First Class Postage to U.
S., $4.50 to Canada, $4.05 Priority Mail, $10.00 Par Avion (Air
Mail) for International Mail. Texans must pay 8-¼ % sales
tax.
Thanks,
Tom
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