Manuscript diary in the hand of Henry Ridinger, 1878-1882. Ridinger describes his work as a herder in Colorado, landscapes and topography in Colorado, Navajo settlements, working in the hay trade, a shooting and arrest in Colorado, and his travel through Kansas to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Ridinger describes life with a group of Osage, including the construction of buildings, hunting, fishing, agriculture, and Osage funerary and religious ceremonies. Ridinger also records his interactions with other tribes, including Pawnee, Cherokee, Ute, and Waco. He describes relations and treaties between the tribes, as well as the tribes' relations with the United States government, including the disbursement of food and clothing. Other passages describe copies of earlier treaties with France and Spain which the tribes showed Ridinger. A later entry describes the aftermath of the United States Army burning a Jewish settlement in Oklahoma in 1881 and The diary also includes an essay about the history of Native American treaties with the United States government and several pages of accounts listing expenses and sales of hay, wheat, and corn. The diary includes several drawings of people, horses, insects, dogs, and symbols. Accompanied by 3 photographs, one hand-colored portrait of Henry Ridinger, one of an unidentified woman, and one of a man and woman captioned "Uncle Sam [Ridinger] with his sweetheart who died."
Description:
Henry Ridinger (1851-1938) was born in either Iowa or Illinois in 1851. His family moved to Kansas in 1857 and he left home at the age of 11, circa 1862. He worked as a cattle herder and hay farmer in Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma for several years in the 1870s and 1880s. He later became a hay farmer in Lincoln County, Nebraska, circa 1885., In English., and Front and back covers are detached.
Subject (Geographic):
Colorado., Oklahoma., Oklahoma, Colorado, Indian Territory, and Kansas
Subject (Name):
Ridinger, Henry, 1851-1938. and Ridinger, Sam
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Cherokee Indians, Crime, Hay trade, Herders, Hunting, Indians of North America, Government relations, Jews, Navajo Indians, Osage Indians, Pawnee Indians, Ute Indians, Waco Indians, and Description and travel
Engraving and etching by McRae after original by White shows Major Samuel Ringgold, U.S. artillery officer, fallen from his horse and fatally wounded by cannon fire during the battle at Palo Alto on May 8, 1846, being tended to by his comrades
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BEIN WA Prints 336: On sheet 16 x 22 cm., BEIN Broadsides4to Zc50 846wi: On sheet 16.5 x 24.7 cm., and Title from caption below image.
Engraving and etching by McRae after original by White shows Major Samuel Ringgold, U.S. artillery officer, fallen from his horse and fatally wounded by cannon fire during the battle at Palo Alto on May 8, 1846, being tended to by his comrades
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BEIN WA Prints 336: On sheet 16 x 22 cm., BEIN Broadsides4to Zc50 846wi: On sheet 16.5 x 24.7 cm., and Title from caption below image.
Portrait presents Wahktageli, a Yanton Sioux/Nakota leader known to Bodmer and other Europeans and European Americans as Big Soldier. Reproduction of a painting by Bodmer. Another print, engraved by Zachée Prévost, from this painting was published in Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von, 1782-1867. Travels in the interior of North America (London: Ackermann and co., 1843); volume 2, plate 8.
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BEIN WA Prints +78: Imperfect: cover wanting. On sheet 56 x 40 cm., Cover title., One color plate of a Sioux warrior done by Karl Bodmer on May 26, 1833 during his expedition to America with Prince Maximilian of Wied., and Text in lower right of sheet with plate: By permission of the estate of Prince Maximilian zu Wied, reproduced by sheet fed gravure, at the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company Chicago.