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Views of General Crook's expedition and the Black Hills
Author
Title
Views of General Crook's expedition and the Black Hills.
Published
1876.
Physical Description
27 photographic prints : albumen, b & w ; 9.2 x 8 cm. on mounts 10.8 x 8.8 cm.
Notes
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.
Provenance
Purchased from Andrew Smith Gallery Inc. on the Walter McClintock Memorial Fund, 1997.
Biographical / Historical Note
Stanley J. Morrow photographed General Crook's column shortly after the battle of Slim Buttes in the Sioux War of 1876.
Summary
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.
Other formats
Copy prints stored with collection.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Cite as
Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Photographic prints.
Albumen prints.
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