Manchester New Hampshire Rose Breton Sharpshooter Cowgirl with Pistol Real Photo Postcard

This postcard captures a studio portrait of a woman embodying the cowgirl archetype, popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Dressed in a wide-brimmed hat, fur chaps or skirt, and holding a revolver and coiled lasso, she represents the romanticized image of the American West. Such posed photographs were common, allowing individuals to embrace or project the adventurous spirit associated with frontier life and the emerging cultural phenomenon of the Western heroine.