Reproduction of 1852 painting by A.F. Tait that depicts two trappers, men of European descent, and four Native American men fighting on horseback on a plain with tall grass; one of the trappers in center foreground wears a buckskin fringed jacket, aims his rifle; the other trapper driving the pack animals away from the scene. The first trapper is shown with a percussion cap and ball rifle, steer powder horn, and an arrow lodged into his camp blanket. Native American men to right in middle ground are armed with bows and arrows. Top half of image is sky
Alternative Title:
Keep your distance
Description:
Below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1853, by N. Currier, in the Clerk’s Office of the District-Court of the Southern District of N.Y. and Title from caption below image.
Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait that depicts a trapper on horseback holding a long gun, looking down at a Indigenous man who has been shot and unhorsed from his mount. The fallen man props himself up with one hand and raises his right hand to his mouth as he shouts. He wears a leather shirt, leggings and beaded moccasins. He is leaning on his bow and his shield. There is a spear on the ground in front of him. Other white men are in the background to the right looking back at others (Indigenous persons?) who are in the far distance further to the right
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 856mc: On sheet 52 x 73 cm., Title from caption below image., After a painting by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait that is the companian piece to "The pursuit.", and Copyright 1856 by N. Currier.
Publisher:
Published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, Frontier and pioneer life, and Wars
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
