Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.
Subject
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Cheyenne primacy article and maps
Collection — Folder 82: [Barcode: 31924070577824]
Identifier: 9264
Content Description
Reprint of the article "Cheyenne primacy: new perspectives on a Great Plains tribe" by Margot Liberty and W. Raymond Wood (from Plains Anthropologist, volume 56, number 218, 2011), together with reprints of seven maps of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (June 25-26, 1876) and the wider Indian Wars of 1876. In support of Margot Liberty's article, the maps--drawn between 1927 and 1932--suggest that the Northern Cheyennes, not the bands of Lakota Sioux generally credited, played the leading...
Dates:
2011
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.
Frank Linabury collection on George Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Collection — Huntington box 37
Identifier: 9114
Scope and content
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and other ephemera relating to George Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Three smaller books containing collection of articles published about the battle removed from magazines. Includes information regarding Custer and Major Marcus Reno. First hand accounts from Indians and soldiers, stories by those who knew individuals involved, news reports, photos, brochure about the battlefield, souvenir flag from battlefield, correspondence to Linabury about...
Dates:
1880-1951-(bulk1920-1930.)
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.