A young man named Bert Nickerbocker,…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

A young man named Bert Nickerbocker, living near San Juan, was brought to Ouray, Colorado, and taken to the hospital Sunday evening suffering from an accident that will cost him one of his hands. While on horseback and roping a cow the rope got wound around his wrist and being pressed against the saddle was almost pulled off.