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Great photo of 3 horses racing down the straightaway of a dirt track, with wooden grandstand on left. Grandstand, spectators standing.
Sign on side of it ‘HOSPITAL PHARMACY DRUGGISTS’.
Negative labelled ‘At Belle Fourche 1908”
Written in ink:
“Taken at fair grounds Sep 19 X where was standing directly opposite Jim Henry”
On back:
Dear Mama: I hope you had a good time and got your health back while on your vacation. Lovingly Henry
Postmarked ‘BELLE ---RCHE S.D. SEP 21 190-“ and mailed to Brooklyn N.Y,
Belle Fourche is a city in and the county seat of Butte County, South Dakota.Its population was 5,617 at the 2020 census.
In 1890, the first trainload of cattle headed east. By 1895, Belle Fourche was shipping 2,500 carloads of cattle per month in the peak season, making it the world's largest livestock-shipping point. This was the start of the agriculture center of the Tri-State area for which Belle Fourche would become known.
After winning a competition with Minnesela over the railroad which now goes through Belle Fourche, Bullock's town went on to win the county seat in the election of 1894. Still, cowboys rode into Minnesela and stole the county books.
