Name/Title
L054R016Description
Oh yeah — **these notes materially improve the catalog entry.** Most importantly, they give us a firm date of **1932**, and several of the handwritten labels appear to correspond directly to what we're seeing in the film. I would replace my earlier estimated dating with 1932 and avoid presenting my earlier South Dakota/Wyoming guess as fact.
### L054R016 — 1932 Western Hunting Trip, Horseback Hunters, Turkey, Deer & Bobcat
Black-and-white home movie footage from **1932** documenting an extended hunting and outdoor trip through the American West. Handwritten notes accompanying the original reel identify scenes including **rifles, antelope, deer, whitetail, campfires, horseback travel, hunting camp, streams and waterfalls**, along with other scenic and hunting footage.
Scenes show hunters riding through pine forests on horseback, pack horses carrying camp equipment, men posing with harvested wild turkeys and deer, a close view of a bobcat, hunters carrying rifles and shotguns, and game being transported by horse. Additional footage includes an early pickup truck loaded with hunting equipment, cattle grazing on open range beside a windmill, rustic ranch buildings, rocky mountain landscapes, streams, waterfalls, forest camps and men traveling through remote wilderness.
The reel provides an unusually detailed look at **Depression-era American hunting culture and backcountry travel**, including the clothing, firearms, automobiles, horses, camp equipment and hunting practices of the early 1930s. Original handwritten documentation was preserved with the reel and is dated **1932**.
**Keywords:** 1932, 1930s, Great Depression, hunting, hunters, hunting trip, hunting expedition, American West, Western United States, outdoor recreation, sportsmen, horseback hunting, horseback riding, horses, pack horses, pack animals, hunting camp, campfire, camping, wilderness, backcountry, pine forest, forest, mountains, mountain scenery, rock formations, streams, waterfall, ranch, ranching, cattle, open range, windmill, vintage automobile, vintage truck, pickup truck, early automobile, rifles, rifle hunting, shotgun, firearms, wild turkey, turkey hunting, deer, deer hunting, whitetail deer, antelope, antelope hunting, bobcat, wildlife, game animals, harvested game, hunters with game, rural America, Depression-era America, 1930s outdoors, vintage hunting
One other important clue: the reverse of the notes is stationery printed **“Fifty-Four North Hood Street, Peru, Indiana.”** That very likely tells us something about the filmmaker/family who owned the reel, though I wouldn't describe the footage itself as Indiana—the scenery clearly documents travel elsewhere.
Also, some of the handwritten place names look potentially decipherable. I can see what appear to be labels such as **“Buffalo Gap”** and possibly **“Sylvan…”**, plus several others. Those could potentially pin this trip down to a very specific route. If you want, I can work through the notes line-by-line and cross-reference the place names against the images; that could make this catalog entry considerably more valuable than a generic “Western hunting trip.”
