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JESSE TANNER RANKIN - LAWMAN
18’h x 6.5”w x 8.25”d edition: 30
Fritz White

Loading his shotgun the “marshal” with his foot upon the Wells Fargo lock box, is preparing to board a stagecoach. 

I have wanted to do this man, in a duster, loading a shotgun, for a few years.  The small creative part of my brain has seen him with his double barrel, leaning against a wheel hub, while he loads a pistol, ramming a blunderbuss, or loading a sawed off shotgun with a Winchester in the crook of his arm, before I landed on the lockbox. 

This piece will always be one of my favorites.  As far as I know there was no Jesse Tanner Rankin, but the gun, the lockbox, and the duster are for real. 

The man’s name just sounds like he should be a lawman; it is also the name of my very young grandson.

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