{"id":1342,"date":"2016-09-16T16:08:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T20:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2017-07-23T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T13:59:43","slug":"gibson-house-branding-wall-bannack-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottshawphotography.com\/?p=1342","title":{"rendered":"Gibson House Branding Wall, Bannack State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Interior wall of the Gibson House at Bannack State Park showing various cattle brands. \u00a0(click to enlarge)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here is an image of an interior wall of the Gibson House in Montana’s Bannack State Park. \u00a0The park’s tour book provides the following history\u00a0of the Gibson House:<\/p>\n

Built in 1862, this large two-story building was known as the Montana Hotel. \u00a0When the Gibson’s\u00a0<\/em>acquired the building in 1890 they continued to use it as a rooming house. \u00a0The smaller building on the left was\u00a0the Gibson family home. \u00a0At some earlier time it served as a blacksmith shop, which is indicated by the brands still visible on\u00a0the interior\u00a0wall.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This wall is located in the smaller house, in the room to the left as you enter the front door. \u00a0I originally envisioned converting the image to black and white, but was not happy with the finished conversion. \u00a0Looking at the image, the bottom two and top two logs are different colors. There is also a color difference in the top two logs between each end and the middle.<\/p>\n

These color changes are lost when converting the image to black and white. \u00a0I liked that in the above version, these color changes form a dark vignette around the left, bottom, and right side of the image drawing the viewer to the\u00a0SS<\/em> and clover shaped brands (maybe the clover is four horseshoes?).<\/p>\n

Here is a Google Earth screen capture showing the location of the small Gibson House within Bannack State Park.<\/p>\n

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Branding Iron Wall: N45 09 41 W112 59 49<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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