Portrait of the Artist As A Frontiersman: Joseph Bevier Sturtevant.(All photos by J. Sturtevant, Courtesy of Boulder Historical Society Local History Collection, Carnegie Branch Library.)Joseph Bevier Sturtevant was a prolific photographer who settled in Boulder, Colorado in 1876. That much is certain. On December 30,2009 according to the online Colorado Daily, Boulder's Carnegie Library got nearly 1,600 pictures to prove it. The photos, donated to the local history collection, are in black and white, but they were taken by one of the Colorado city's most colorful citizens: a fraudulent frontiersman known as "Rocky Mountain Joe." Most of Joe's local color...
