Views of General Crook's expedition and the Black Hills

Description

Title: Views of General Crook's expedition and the Black Hills
Creator: Morrow, Stanley J.
Published / Created: 1876.
Abstract: Photographs of the Fifth Cavalry resting in the Black Hills, including views of soldiers in camp, their supply trains, captured Sioux Indians, wounded soldiers, the butchering of horses for meat, and General Crook ordaining Spotted Tail chief of the Sioux at Red Cloud Agency
Description: Printed captions pasted on mounts.
27 photographs from a series of 31 that Morrow originally photographed, lacking: #6 Bear Rock, from S., near Custer City; #7 Fifth Cavalry leaving Custer City; #23 Soldiers cutting up abandoned horse; #26 Soldiers fighting over horse meat.
Stanley J. Morrow photographed General Crook's column shortly after the battle of Slim Buttes in the Sioux War of 1876.
Copy prints stored with collection.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew Smith Gallery Inc. on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 1997.
Extent: 27 photographic prints : 9.2 x 8 cm. on mounts 10.8 x 8.8 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: WA Photos 225
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Genre: Pictorial works
Photographic prints
Albumen prints
Portraits
Material: albumen, b & w ;
Subject (Geographic): Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)
Subject (Name): Crook, George, 1828-1890.
United States. Cavalry. 5th Regiment
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Red Cloud Agency
Spotted Tail, 1823-1881
Subject (Topic): Indians of North America
Wars
Dakota Indians
Subjects: Crook, George, 1828-1890
United States. Cavalry. 5th Regiment > 1855- > Pictorial works
United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Red Cloud Agency > Pictorial works
Indians of North America > Wars > 1866-1895 > Pictorial works
Dakota Indians > Pictorial works
Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.) > Pictorial works
Spotted Tail, 1823-1881 > Portraits

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Citation: Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.