 A. R. Calhoun is primarily known as Major A. R. Calhoun
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| A railway survey artist, photographer and special artist for "Harper's Weekly" and the "Philadelphia Press,"
Major Calhoun was a member of the Union Pacific survey party led by
General Wright and Dr. William Bell through Arizona, New Mexico, and
Colorado in the 1860s.
He contributed articles that were
published in those publications, and in 1867, an illustration of a
battle and view of Fort Wallace in Kansas territory was published by Harper's
from his sketches. The text by Calhoun in describing this scene
was that "Corporal Harris placed the muzzle of the Spencer rifle he
carried in his right hand at the breast of the savage Roman Nose and
fired." (79)
This illustration of Fort Wallace was one of the works he did for Dr. William Bell's book, New Tracks in North America.
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a report published in July, 1867, Calhoun wrote of the dull daily
existence of being in the desert with the party of men, and described
the fact that in following an erroneous government map, they made a
forty-five mile error.
Sources include:
Peggy and Harold Samuels, Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of the American West
Robert Taft, Artists and Illustrators of the Old West, 1850-1900
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