For you Western history buffs-Bill Sachs (portrait http://pinterest.com/wwoobie/the-art-of-maxfield-parrish/), was an “old time stage coach driver”. Parrish painted him in the early 1900’s, I believe.
Anyway-is this guy famous? I cannot find much on him via Google.
I have no idea, but it looks like he would be fluent in authentic frontier gibberish.
Ike Witt Johnson is right.
As I say, Parrish visited the southwest (1901), and painted many local characters. This Sachs looks to be around 60, so he certainly lived most of his life in the period of the “Old West”.
I thought he might be a character of some note-I guess that isn’t the case.