Print shows a Native American man smoking a pipe and sitting in the grass with a white man who is holding out a bottle; another white man stands nearby with two horses, one of which has a dead deer or elk on its back; within a single line border; caption letters and imprint below image
Alternative Title:
Indian in doubt and Seductive offer
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Another state, black and white with mirrored reversal of left and right, issued in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper (New York), volume 33, issue 834, Sept. 23, 1871, has title: Trading on the plains--a seductive offer--the Indian in doubt.
Image of a hunter in buckskin clothing sitting atop his horse, who stands in a shallow pond. The hunter holds his rifle and turns to look behind him. At far left in the distance, a Native American is seen on his horse riding through the tall grasses
Description:
BEIN BrSides Zc10 850ra: Imperfect: Faded and heavily foxed. Print is mounted on verso of an advertising placard for "Life likeness of Charley McCarthy to be given away free," cataloged separately. and Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Trappers, Hunters, Horses, and Indians of North America
Print depicts two white men pursuing an Indigenous man; all on horseback. In the foreground, one rider has tossed a lasso toward the Indigenous man
Description:
Title from printed caption. and Below image: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the district court of the Southern District of New York.
Print reproduces a 1905 painting by Remington called 'The smoke signal' that depicts three Crow Native American men with three horses, one roan, one black, and one white with a red right hand print (as a brand) on its left buttock and a bird's feather tied into its tail; two of the Crow men are dismounted, kneeling on the hill-side signalling with smoke
Publisher:
Reproduced by the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago by permission of the copyright owner, the Remington Art Memorial
Subject (Topic):
Crow Indians, Indians of North America, Great Plains, and West (U.S.)
Three American Indians are shown killing six loyalists as the result of the 1783 peace treaty preliminaries. On the left, an Indian pulling on the rope attached to the nooses of two military officers and two civilians hanged from a limb of a dead tree says, "I have them all in a String." The limb is inscribed, "Recommended to Congress by Lord S___e [Shelburne]." Below, another Indian with a large knife in his hand pulls the hair of a loyalist lying on the ground saying, "I'll scalp him." To their right, a loyalist kneeling on the ground and looking with horror over his shoulder at the Indian with a raised tomahawk says, "O Cruel Fate! is this the Return for Our Loyalty," to which the Indian responds, "I'll tomahawk the Dog."
Alternative Title:
Cruel fate of the loyalists
Description:
Title from item. and Date, including day, in lower right corner of the design. The day of publication not given in British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Sold by W. Humphrey No 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
United States and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Hangings, Scalping, Massacres, Clothing & dress, Military uniforms, British, Headdresses, Tomahawks, Politics and government, and History
Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait in a lithograph by Louis Maurer for Currier & Ives; it depicts trappers pursuing in combat Indigenous persons on horseback. In the foreground, one pair of riders; a trapper, on saddled roan mount, wearing hat and animal-skin clothing, aiming a pistol with his right hand; an Indigenous person, bareback on black horse, leaning to left side of mount, looking back, holding a spear in his right hand; in the mid-ground, more riders in thel tall grass; in the background, largely cloudy sky with a single bird in flight; a little less than half the print shows the sky
Description:
Title from printed caption below image. and Below image: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by N. Currier, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern Distt. of N.Y.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Currier & Ives
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.) and Great Plains
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, and Frontier and pioneer life
