Cabinet card albumen print depicting a young man posed in buckskin frontier attire, seated sideways on a wooden chair and wearing high boots and a brimmed hat. The photograph was produced by Rice, whose Washington, D.C. studio imprint appears on the mount, listing addresses at 1217–1219 & 1225 Pennsylvania Avenue. The imprint and mount style place the photograph in the late 1870s to early 1880s.

The sitter is presented in a “scout” or frontiersman costume rather than documented military or Native dress, reflecting popular studio imagery tied to post–Civil War fascination with frontier life, exploration, and Western identity. Such portraits were commonly made for soldiers, civilians, and performers in Washington, D.C., where photography studios catered to both official clientele and popular tastes shaped by dime novels and illustrated press.

Albumen print mounted on a standard cream cabinet card with Rice’s illustrated studio verso advertising photographic services and camera equipment, including provisions for ordering duplicate prints by negative number. An example of late 19th-century studio portraiture engaging with frontier themes through costume and pose rather than documentary representation.