The water-damaged reverse of a historic photograph, captioned in pencil: 'Gold shipment by stage from Shafter, Presidio County, Texas to the railroad, accompanied by four armed guards, 1888. Henry M. Yeiser, mounted guard, in left foreground.' Shafter was a silver-mining boomtown in West Texas, where armed escorts routinely guarded bullion shipments traveling by stagecoach to the nearest railhead. Project: 218484