Wild Horse Island Press
Dune
Cowpuncher
Boxers
Dreaming 
Buckaroo
Hardbound.
14 x 11 inches.
84 photographs, 96 pages.
Introduction by
Kurt Markus.
Published in 1985 by Twelve Trees Press.
First edition, new, slipcased, signed.
(from the photographer’s personal library)
$1,200.
After Barbed Wire
Kurt Markus
Kurt’s first cowboy book, now long out of print and one of the most sought-after and prized collector’s books on the market today. Published by Twelve Trees Press in 1985 to immediate acclaim, After Barbed Wire was the first book to present the cowboy genre in a new light, stripped of historical reference and cliche. With minimal text by the photographer, the images are reproduced in art-book fashion in rich sheet-fed gravure.
One of the best books of 1985
-The American Institute of Graphic Arts
“The adventure has turned to obsession, and with it, subjects for the camera into friends.”
—Kurt Markus