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Dick Griffith, born to a rodeo family in Canton, Oklahoma in 1913
won four consecutive world-championship bull riding titles from 1939-1942.
He stopped in New York to be photographed by Carl Van Vechten in October, 1940.
May 10, 2010
A wooden sculpture "The Boxer Wild Cat", by Leslie Garland Bolling, ca. 1930.
February 4, 2010
H. L. Mencken inscribes a book for Carl Van Vechten and totals the amount of water under the bridge . . .
July 16, 2009
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