Reports to the Assistant Adj. Gen., Dept. of Dakota and orders signed by 1st Lt. James Calhoun
Description:
The Black Hills Expedition, the 7th United States Cavalry commanded by Gen. Custer, under the authority of Gen. Terry, was to reconnoiter a route to the Black Hills and explore their interior. It left from Fort Hall July 2, 1874 and returned in August. and Available on microfilm.
Subject (Geographic):
Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.)
Subject (Name):
Custer, George A. 1839-1876. (George Armstrong), and United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th.
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., and Copy prints stored with collection.
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, and Spotted Tail, 1823-1881
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Wars, and Dakota Indians
Photographs taken by H. R. Locke and printed by H. R. Locke and Company, Locke and McBride, or Locke and Peterson of stops along the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad in South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, circa 1892-1896. Included are views of Deadwood, Lead City, Englewood, Needle Points in Custer Park, Horseshoe Curve near Custer, Spearfish Canyon, Bald Mountain, Knife Blade on Needle Rock in Elk Canyon, Harney's Peak (Black Elk Peak) in Black Hills, the Deadwood and Delaware Smelting Works and Homestake mines, and a photograph of I. V. Carlton, R. M. Welch, and D. A. Haggard "just back from work". Views in Wyoming show the Devil's Tower above the Belle Fourche River and Cambria; a view in Montana shows the Crow Agency. Advertisements on several of the versos are for "Easy to Reach Deadwood"; 2 photographs are stamped "J. T. Gillmore, Deadwood, South Dakota". A label affixed to a verso advertises E. F. King, Black Hills Jeweler
Description:
Henry Robinson Locke (1856-1927), photographer, ran a studio in Deadwood, South Dakota. Locke photographed the Black Hills area, Deadwood, Crow people, miners, and railroads., Captions in English., Title devised by cataloger., and Place of creation and date from captions.
Subject (Geographic):
Montana., Black Elk Peak (S.D.), Black Hills (S.D. and Wyo.), Cambria (Wyo.), Crow Agency (Mont.), Custer State Park (S.D.), Deadwood (S.D.), Lead (S.D.), South Dakota, and Spearfish Canyon (S.D.)
Subject (Name):
Carlton, I. V., Gillmore, J. T., Haggard, D. A., Locke, H. R., Welch, R. M., Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company, Delaware Smelting (Deadwood, S.D.), H. R. Locke and Co., Homestake Gold Stamping Mill (Lead City, S.D.), Locke and McBride., and Locke and Peterson.
