Text in verse with illustrations ([4] p.) on recto; verso blank. At top and bottom of each p. of text are attached flaps with additional illustrations or text and illustrations. and The ill. are hand-colored.
Publisher:
Published ... by Robt. Sayer, Map & Printseller, no. 53, in Fleet Street
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
Historical collections of the Great West: containing narratives of the most important and
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
""In the meantime his heroic wife was busily engaged in defending the door against the efforts of the only remaining Indian, whom she so severely wounded, with the ax, that he was soon glad to retire.""
Description:
P. 155.
Subject (Geographic):
America --Discovery and exploration, Mississippi River Valley --History, and West (U.S.) --History
Subject (Topic):
Frontier and pioneer life --West (U.S.) and Indians of North America
Reproduction of Charles Schreyvogel's oil painting "How kola." Depicts a scene of battle between Native Americans and U.S. Army troops. Troupers riding directly at viewer with a fallen Native American and horse about to be trampled by trouper on horseback in the foreground
Description:
Title from the oil painting on which the print is based., Imprint devised by cataloger from an advertisement in Publishers’ Weekly (No. 1817; Nov. 24, 1906) for prints by Charles Schreyvogel of western frontier life by Moffat, Yard, & Company of New York., and In hand at bottom left corner of print: Copyright 1901 by Chas Schreyvogel.
[Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians] and Letters and notes on the North American Indians
Description:
On verso of title page: C. and J. Adlard, printers, Bartholomew Close, [London]. and Originally published as : Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians. London : Published by the author : printed by Tosswill and M
Publisher:
Henry G. Bohn,
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) --Description and travel
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Indians of North America --Pictorial works, and Indians of North America --West (U.S.)
Reproduction of a Charles Schreyvogel oil painting. Depicts a two troopers in a narrow canyon; one on horseback, the other unmounted; pistols drawn, looking back at approaching riders
Description:
BEIN WA Prints +217: Blind stamped in lower left corner: Copyright 1912 by Chs. Schreyvogel., Title devised by cataloger., and In lower right corner of print: Chas Schreyvogel copyright 1912.
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874), born in Baltimore, accompanied William Drummond Stewart on an 1837 expedition to the Green River Valley, Wind River Mountains, and the eastern section of Oregon Territory. He was commissioned by Stewart to sketch the Indians and scenery and later enlarge them into oil paintings.
Subject (Name):
Miller, Alfred Jacob, 1810-1874 and Stewart, William Drummond, Sir, 1795 or 6-1871
Photographs of Captain Luther H. North and of Pawnee Indian scouts [graphic]
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
The two photographs in WA Photos 94 include one portrait of Captain North and one group portrait of the last eight survivors of Norths Company A Pawnee Indian scouts, taken circa 1929.
Description:
Photographs are on postcard mounts and are accompanied by a letter regarding the Pawnee Indian Scouts of Company A and their captain.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Military scouts, and Pawnee Indians