[Late Indian Wars]. A pair of cabinet cards of Little Bighorn participants, including Goose and Spotted Eagle.

2 cabinet photographs on cardstock mounts of Little Bighorn participants. Subjects include:

"Goose," as identified in the negative and on applied paper label on mount recto. Bismarck, Dakota: D.F. Barry. Matted and framed for display, 13 x 10 7/8 in. (scattered spotting, toning, not examined outside frame). A waist-length, seated portrait of Sioux scout Goose, who was reportedly wounded in the hand by a 7th Cavalry trooper at the Battle of Little Bighorn. -- "Spotted Eagle." Miles City, Montana Territory: L.A. Huffman (toning and fading to print, light soiling to print and mount). With period inked notation on verso, "Chief of the Sioux who surrendered to Gen. Miles at Ft. Keogh in /81." The image was originally taken in 1878 when Huffman was Post Photographer at Ft. Keough, Montana. Spotted Eagle, shown holding a spiked gunstock club, fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Together, 2 cabinet cards.

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[Late Indian Wars]. A pair of cabinet cards of Little Bighorn participants, including Goose and Spotted Eagle.

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