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Some of the 70 bronze steers in a large sculpture in Pioneer Park in Dallas, Texas, that commemorates nineteenth- century cattle drives that took place along the Shawnee Trail, the earliest and easternmost route by which Texas longhorn cattle were taken to northern railheads

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Some of the 70 bronze steers in a large sculpture in Pioneer Park in Dallas, Texas, that commemorates nineteenth- century cattle drives that took place along the Shawnee Trail, the earliest and easternmost route by which Texas longhorn cattle were taken to northern railheads

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Sculptor: Robert Summers (Source: A comprehensive guide to outdoor sculpture in Texas, C. Little, 1996)
The trail passed through Austin, Waco, and Dallas until the Chisolm Trail siphoned off most of the traffic in 1867. The 70 steers and three trail riders were created by artist Robert Summers of Glen Rose, Texas. Each steer is larger-than-life at six feet high; altogether the sculpture is the largest bronze monument of its kind in the world. Set along an artificial ridge and past a manmade limestone cliff, native landscaping with a flowing stream and waterfall help create the dramatic effect.
Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; The Lyda Hill Foundation; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:054).
Forms part of: Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

In 2015, documentary photographer Carol Highsmith received a letter from Getty Images accusing her of copyright infringement for featuring one of her own photographs on her own website. It demanded payment of $120. This was how Highsmith came to learn that stock photo agencies Getty and Alamy had been sending similar threat letters and charging fees to users of her images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress for use by the general public at no charge. In 2016, Highsmith has filed a $1 billion copyright infringement suit against both Alamy and Getty stating “gross misuse” of 18,755 of her photographs. “The defendants [Getty Images] have apparently misappropriated Ms. Highsmith’s generous gift to the American people,” the complaint reads. “[They] are not only unlawfully charging licensing fees … but are falsely and fraudulently holding themselves out as the exclusive copyright owner.” According to the lawsuit, Getty and Alamy, on their websites, have been selling licenses for thousands of Highsmith’s photographs, many without her name attached to them and stamped with “false watermarks.” (more: http://hyperallergic.com/314079/photographer-files-1-billion-suit-against-getty-for-licensing-her-public-domain-images/)

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01/01/2014
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Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
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Dallas (Tex.)32.78306, -96.80667
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