Letters to George E. Hyde describe George Bent's life with the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Comanches, Kiowas, Sioux and other tribes of the Arkansas and Platte valleys. They include accounts of the Indian wars, with personal narratives of the Chivington mas...
Description:
George Bent (1843-1918), son of Colonel William Bent, fur trader and founder of Bent's Fort, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, daughter of White Thunder, went to school in St. Louis. By 1904 he was living in Colony, Oklahoma.
Subject (Geographic):
Bent's Fort (Colo.), Colorado, Julesburg Region (Colo.), and Kansas
Subject (Name):
Bent, George, 1843-1918. and Hyde, George E., 1882-1968.
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians, Cheyenne Indians, Comanche Indians, Dakota Indians, Indians of North America, Wars, Kiowa Indians, Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876, Sand Creek Massacre, Colo., 1864, and History
Letters to George E. Hyde describe George Bent's life with the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Comanches, Kiowas, Sioux and other tribes of the Arkansas and Platte valleys. They include accounts of the Indian wars, with personal narratives of the Chivington mas...
Description:
George Bent (1843-1918), son of Colonel William Bent, fur trader and founder of Bent's Fort, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, daughter of White Thunder, went to school in St. Louis. By 1904 he was living in Colony, Oklahoma.
Subject (Geographic):
Bent's Fort (Colo.), Colorado, Julesburg Region (Colo.), and Kansas
Subject (Name):
Bent, George, 1843-1918. and Hyde, George E., 1882-1968.
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians, Cheyenne Indians, Comanche Indians, Dakota Indians, Indians of North America, Wars, Kiowa Indians, Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876, Sand Creek Massacre, Colo., 1864, and History
The collection consists of journals, financial documents, account books, correspondence, photographs and maps that document the professional and personal life of George W. Conover. The bulk of the material dates from the turn of the twentieth century,...
Description:
George W. Conover (1848-1936), a native of Philadelphia, was a merchant, rancher and Indian agent in southwestern Oklahoma. From 1870 to 1873 he worked at the Indian commissary at Fort Sill, after which he moved to the area of Andarko to become a ranc...
Subject (Geographic):
Oklahoma., Andarko (Okla.), Caddo County (Okla.), Indian Territory., Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indian Reservation (Okla.), Oklahoma, Wichita Reservation (Okla.), and Indian Territory
Subject (Name):
Conover, George W., 1848- and Conover, Tomasa.
Subject (Topic):
Businessmen, Caddo Indians, Comanche Indians, Delaware Indians, Indian agents, Kiowa Indians, Land settlement, Indians of North America, Ranchers, Statehood (American politics), Wichita Indians, Government relations, Land tenure, Indian reservations, Politics and government, and Social life and customs
The second volume of a personal journal of a young lady from Independence, Missouri, who follows her husband, a Santa Fé trader, to the Southwest in the early stages of the Mexican war. She describes people, events regarding the acquisition of the N...
Description:
There are 32 loose pages laid in front of the journal.
Subject (Geographic):
Bent's Fort (Colo.), Chihuahua (Mexico : State), El Paso (Tex.), Fort Macy (N.M.), Little Arkansas River (Kan.), Pecos (N.M.), Saltillo (Coahuila, Mexico), Santa Fe (N.M.), Southwest, New, and Taos (N.M.)
Subject (Name):
Ampudia, Pedro de, 1805-1868., Archuleta, Diego, 1814-1884., Armijo, Manuel, 1792?-1853., Belknap, William Goldsmith, d. 1851., Bent, Charles, 1799-1847., Bent, George, 1814-1847., Bliss, William Wallace Smith, 1815-1853., Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876., Chavez y Castillo, Mariano., Clark, Meriwether Lewis, 1809-1881., Cooke, Philip St. George, 1809-1895., Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879., Davy, Cornelius., Donaldson, James Lowry, 1814-1885., Doniphan, Alexander William., Gilpin, William, 1815-1894., Gregg, Josiah, 1806-1850., Howard, John Eager, d. 1862., Hunter, David, 1802-1886., Kearny, Stephen Watts, 1794-1848., Kendall, Geo. Wilkins 1809-1867. (George Wilkins),, McDowell, Sarah Shelby, 1785-1847., Magoffin, James Wiley, 1799-1868., Magoffin, Samuel, 1801-1888., Magoffin, Susan Shelby, 1827-1855., Ortiz, Ramon., Ortiz, Tomas., Owens, Samuel D., d. 1847., Peck, William 1820-1892. (William Guy),, Pino, Manuel., Prentice, George D. 1802-1870. (Geroge Denison),, Prentiss, James H., 1809-1848., Price, Sterling, 1809-1867., Robidou, Antoine, 1794-1860., Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794?-1876., Shelby, James, 1784-1848., Shelby, Thomas Hart, 1789-1869., Stanley, John Mix, 1814-1872., Stockton, Robert Field, 1795-1866., Swords, Thomas, 1806-1886., Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850., Trias, Angel., Urrea, José, 1797-1849., Warner, William Horace., Washington, John Macrae, 1797-1853., Wool, John Ellis, 1784-1869., Worth, William Jenkins, 1794-1849., Wright, George, 1803-1865., and Mexico. President (1846 : Paredes y Arrillaga)
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Social life and customs, Apache Indians, Comanche Indians, Navajo Indians, History, Description and travel, and Mexican War, 1846-1848
An incomplete set of images from a portfolio of studio portrait photographs of Indian delegates to the United States created by the photographic studio of Alexander Gardner in Washington, D.C., for the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England, 1872. Indi...
Description:
Photographs are mounted on boards with typescript captions and image numbers 82, 86, 94, 95, 97, 102, 106, 111, 114, 117, and 120.
Subject (Name):
Alvord, Henry E. 1844-1904. (Henry Elijah),, Antelope, Big Foot, d. 1890, Black Crow, Cayote, Chewing Elk, Esquitzchew, Gap In The Salt, Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882., Gray Leggings, Jim Comanche Indian, Knee-War-War, Blackmore Museum (Salisbury, England), and Keeche Tribe
Subject (Topic):
Arapaho Indians, Caddo Indians, Comanche Indians, Indians of North America, Government relations, Kiowa Indians, Tawakoni Indians, and Wichita Indians
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
Published / Created:
1876.
Call Number:
WA Photos Folio 54
Image Count:
112
Abstract:
Album of photographs of Indians of North America assembled in 1876 from images in the collection of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. The images in the photographs were originally created ca. 1868-1876, and cons...
Description:
Additional identification information for the majority of images in the album is available through the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Museum Support Center, Suitland, Maryland.
Subject (Geographic):
East (U.S.), Great Lakes Region (North America), Great Plains, Middle Atlantic States, Middle West, New England, Northwest, Pacific, Southern States, Southwest, New, and Fort Hall (Idaho : Fort)
Subject (Name):
Bell, C. M. ca. 1849-1893. (Charles Milton),, Blackmore, William, 1827-1878, Easterly, Thomas M. 1809-1882. (Thomas Martin),, Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882., Gurney, Benjamin., Gurney, Jeremiah, 1812-1895., Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942., McClees, James Earle, 1821-1887., Red Cloud, 1822-1909, Shindler, A. Zeno 1823-1899. (Antonio Zeno),, Ulke, Henry, 1821-1910., Ulke, Julius., Ulke, Lee., Vannerson, Julian, b. 1827., Westmann, Orloff R., Blackmore Museum (Salisbury, England), Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), Northern Arapaho Tribe, and United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Crow Indian Agency
Photographs principally of Kiowa and Comanche Indians, many taken near Ft. Sill and Anadarko, Indian Territory. There are individual portraits, including those of chiefs (Lone Wolf, Quanah Parker) and medicine men, as well as of family groupings and c...
Description:
Some photographs carry imprint: Overstreet Studio, Chickasha, I.T.
Publisher:
Irwin
Subject (Geographic):
Anadarko (Okla.), Chickasha (Okla.), and Fort Sill (Okla.)
Subject (Name):
Geronimo, 1829-1909, Lone Wolf, Kiowa Indian, and Parker, Quanah, 1845?-1911.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Caddo Indians, Comanche Indians, and Kiowa Indians
Photographic prints that document landscapes, structures, American Indians, and United States soldiers in the vicinity of Fort Dodge, Kansas, and Fort Sill and Camp Supply, Indian Territory, 1867-1874. American Indian tribes depicted in the images in...
Description:
William Stinson Soule created photographs of American Indians around Fort Dodge, Kansas, in 1867, and at Camp Supply or Fort Sill, Indian Territory, between 1868 and 1874. His brother, John P. Soule, a stereograph photographer and print seller distrib...
Publisher:
William Soule
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Sill (Okla.), Fort Dodge (Kan.), Camp Supply (Okla.), Medicine Creek (Okla.), and Oklahoma
Subject (Name):
A-quin., A-to-ba., Austin, John Osborne, 1849-1918., Ba-etha., Ba-ha-ba., Buffalo Chap., Chi-wek-kiethe., Feather Head., Hack-e-a., Hat-pay., He Bear., Ho-wear., Hun-top., Iron Mountain., Jones, Horace Pope, 1829-1902., Kicking Bird, Kiowa Chief, d. 1875., Little Raven., Lone Bear., Looking for Something Good, Comanche Indian., Marn-me., Mon-no-na., Morrison, Ralph., Never Got Shot., Pacer., Poor Buffalo., Powder Face., Qna-moth-kee., Reade, Philip Hildreth, 1844-, Sa-huk., Satank, Kiowa Chief, ca. 1815-1878., Short Greasy Hair., Silver Brooch., Sitting in Saddle., Son of the Sun., Soule, William S., 1836-1908., Spotted Wolf., Wap-pah., Yellow Bear., John S. Evans and Company., United States. Army, United States. Army. Cavalry, 10th., and United States. Army. Cavalry, 9th.
Subject (Topic):
African American troops, Indians of North America, Apache Indians, Arapaho Indians, Cheyenne Indians, Comanche Indians, Kiowa Indians, Soldiers, and African American soldiers
Photographic prints that document landscapes, structures, American Indians, and United States soldiers in the vicinity of Fort Dodge, Kansas, and Fort Sill and Camp Supply, Indian Territory, 1867-1874. American Indian tribes depicted in the images in...
Description:
William Stinson Soule created photographs of American Indians around Fort Dodge, Kansas, in 1867, and at Camp Supply or Fort Sill, Indian Territory, between 1868 and 1874. His brother, John P. Soule, a stereograph photographer and print seller distrib...
Publisher:
William Soule
Subject (Geographic):
Fort Sill (Okla.), Fort Dodge (Kan.), Camp Supply (Okla.), Medicine Creek (Okla.), and Oklahoma
Subject (Name):
A-quin., A-to-ba., Austin, John Osborne, 1849-1918., Ba-etha., Ba-ha-ba., Buffalo Chap., Chi-wek-kiethe., Feather Head., Hack-e-a., Hat-pay., He Bear., Ho-wear., Hun-top., Iron Mountain., Jones, Horace Pope, 1829-1902., Kicking Bird, Kiowa Chief, d. 1875., Little Raven., Lone Bear., Looking for Something Good, Comanche Indian., Marn-me., Mon-no-na., Morrison, Ralph., Never Got Shot., Pacer., Poor Buffalo., Powder Face., Qna-moth-kee., Reade, Philip Hildreth, 1844-, Sa-huk., Satank, Kiowa Chief, ca. 1815-1878., Short Greasy Hair., Silver Brooch., Sitting in Saddle., Son of the Sun., Soule, William S., 1836-1908., Spotted Wolf., Wap-pah., Yellow Bear., John S. Evans and Company., United States. Army, United States. Army. Cavalry, 10th., and United States. Army. Cavalry, 9th.
Subject (Topic):
African American troops, Indians of North America, Apache Indians, Arapaho Indians, Cheyenne Indians, Comanche Indians, Kiowa Indians, Soldiers, and African American soldiers
