Beschreibung:

5 x 8 in. silver gelatin photograph mounted to 11 x 14 in., with copyright in the negative to photographer C.E. Krueger, showing a gaunt Cody with his physician, Dr. W.W. Crook, at his office at the Stone Bath House in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The steadily weakening Cody went to visit Dr. Crook on January 3, 1917, and collapsed in his presence. Crook acknowledged the inevitable and sent Cody to meet his family at Denver two days later, accompanying him on the train there. Cody died of kidney failure in Denver on January 10, at the age of 70. Dr. Crook and his family were long associated with Cody's, though we are unclear on their exact relation (See Lot 2, the 1860s-1870s family Cody family album including a cabinet card of a much younger W.W. Crook, as well as his father Dr. J.J. Crook, and others). Provenance: Descended directly in the family of William F. Buffalo Bill Cody Condition: Cluster of raised specks in the left margin, else very good.