[LATE INDIAN WARS]. GARDNER, Alexander (1821-1882). Imperial albumen photograph. Scenes in the Indian Country [Col. Bullock residence at Fort Laramie].

13 x 19 in. albumen photograph (sight), mounted and framed. Lettered mount, title penciled lower right margin. Provenance: Western Reserve Historical Society (sold Cowan's, 10 May 2007, lot 631).

The image shows a gingerbread-style 2-story cottage of clapboard construction, with subjects sitting and standing on the porch, wagons to the right and another building in the background.

In 1843, close to one thousand emigrants passed through Fort Laramie, near present-day Uva, Wyoming, which was an important supply stop on the journey west. In 1849, the US Government purchased the post, and in 1851 it was host to a multi-tribe treaty conference aimed at negotiating rights of free passage through Indian lands for westward-bound emigrants. In 1868, Fort Laramie was the site of the great Sioux Treaty Council, during which Alexander Gardner photographed his Scenes in the Indian Country series.

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[LATE INDIAN WARS]. GARDNER, Alexander (1821-1882). Imperial albumen photograph. Scenes in the Indian Country [Col. Bullock residence at Fort Laramie].

Property from the Collection of Dr. Brant Mittler

American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann

[LATE INDIAN WARS]. GARDNER, Alexander (1821-1882). Imperial albumen photograph. Scenes in the Indian Country [Col. Bullock residence at Fort Laramie].

[LATE INDIAN WARS]. GARDNER, Alexander (1821-1882). Imperial albumen photograph. Scenes in the Indian Country [Col. Bullock residence at Fort Laramie].

American Historical Ephemera and Photography Featuring the Civil War and American Militaria Collection of Bruce B. Hermann

[LATE INDIAN WARS]. GARDNER, Alexander (1821-1882). Imperial albumen photograph. Scenes in the Indian Country [Col. Bullock residence at Fort Laramie].

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[LATE INDIAN WARS]. GARDNER, Alexander (1821-1882). Imperial albumen photograph. Scenes in the Indian Country [Col. Bullock residence at Fort Laramie].