Truths about American cowboys is that after the civil war in America, American cowboys came from the east, Midwest, and south to work on ranches and drive the trail, over 50,000 rode the herds. The struggles that an American cowboy had to face was his duty as a worker in the cattle business is at times to ride over the range in order to see that straying cattle do not rove too far from the assigned limits of time herd of which lie has charge, at times to drive the herd from one locality to another, and at times to round up the dispersed cattle, by which is meant to collect them together for the purpose of branding calves, or of selecting beef cattle, which latter are driven to railroad stations for shipment to market. A few cowboys even came from the United Kingdom and other parts of Europe. The reality are the interrelationships between humans, horses, and cattle in the early twentieth century. Erwin E. Smith, Cowboy Photographer features almost 100 of Smith's finest black and white photographs printed on warm-toned paper. This exhibition pays tribute to the beauty and excitement of Smith's work and the way of life he recorded. As a young boy in Fannin County, northeast of Fort Worth, Smith had a passion for art and for cowboy life. Daunted at first by the challenge of combining these two loves, he doubted his ability to properly capture the country's beauty. He wrote: "From the first time I laid eyes on the sun burnt plains of the West, with its grand scenery, I have been in love with its still, enchanted solitude. Its change of colors no artist can portray."