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Under the composer's name Giré Goulineaux on the front cover is a handwritten "nom de plume of Johann C. Schmid"
in Schmid's own distinct handwriting, indicating that "Giré Goulineaux" was one of his pseudonyms. This unique copy
was scanned by Lewis J. Thomas Jr., a grandson of Johann C. Schmid. Concerning the tantalizing image on the cover,
see Antiques Roadshow appraisal of Kaloma photo. Schmid published this Kaloma piano piece soon after the photo with
that name became popular in 1914. Wyatt Earp died in 1929. It was not until 1976 that the Kaloma photo appeared on
the cover of a book by a charlatan titled I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp. She
would have been 53 years old when the 1914 photo was taken. So the woman in the photo was someone else. In the 1993
Wyatt Earp movie Tombstone, the final scene has Wyatt and Josephine dancing without much hesitation. When dancing
to a waltz, which has three beats per measure, hesitation occurs when a step is held over two beats of the music. See the
fourth paragraph of Social Dances of the Ragtime Era and this video of Vernon and Irene Castle dancing with hesitation.
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