I’ve been involved with The Wild West Days in Viroqua, Wisconsin since 2008. I’ve been doing photography for most of that time as well, but as-of 2017, officially as Hickok Country Photography.
During a 3-year span, from 2015-2017, Wild West Days had an amazing photographer for the event. Along the main stretch of the 1880s-style […]. petapixel.com
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