Powder River Valley (Wyo. and Mont.)
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Colored photographs of the frontier
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 9111
Scope and content
Six colored photographs depicting life on the frontier. The photos include: taking cow robes (buffalo skins) at Timber Creek, 1878; Bull train, Main Street, Milestown, Montana Territory, 1880; Near Custer's Hill, June 25, 1877, one year after the battle, shows eight unmarked graves, from the Battle of the Little Bighorn, labeled as the last men to fall; Wild goats in the Badlands; A trail herd, Powder River, 1886; Buffalo hunters camp, a relic of the seventies. Each piece has the title and...
Dates:
1877-1886.
The Huffman pictures
Collection — Huntington box 20
Identifier: 9089
Scope and content
Album of photographs dated between 1870 and 1910. Some illustrations from magazines. Includes invoice for purchase by The Heye Foundation. Some of the photos are colored. The photos show various aspects of frontier and Indian life in Montana and Missouri. There is a typed note inside the cover from Huffman written at Miles Creek, Montana and a signed picture of Huffman. Included are photos of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians, cowboys, and ranchers, the battle field of Little Bighorn with the grave...
Dates:
1870-1910.