Printed Books & Early American Photography, including Selections from the Larry Ness Collection

4 cabinet photographs on cardstock mounts, one of which includes the verso studio imprint of W.S. Soule, Fort Sill, I.T. The remaining images are unmarked but were taken by Soule. Manuscript identifications are included on mount rectos and/or versos. Images overall very good with some toning, occasional soiling, some edge and corner wear to mounts.

Subjects include: "Big Bow, Kiowa Chief" (few ink stains near top left corner and top edge, some surface loss to mount verso). -- "Yellow Bear, Arapaho Chief." Pasted label on verso from the "Second International Congress of Eugenics Exhibit of Scientific Studies," held at the American Museum of Natural History in the fall of 1921, with an ownership record of C.F. Fish of South Swansea, Massachusetts. -- "Apache Brave," possibly Pacer's nephew. -- "White Horse, Kiowa Chief."

White Horse (Tsen-tainte) was likely among the Kiowa, led by Satanta and Lone Wolf, who met Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, Gen. Philip Sheridan, and Col. J. Schuyler Crosby near Fort Cobb in December 1868. Satanta and Lone Wolf were taken prisoner and held until the Kiowa surrendered. Between 1870 and 1874, White Horse took part in raids across Texas, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, including the Warren Wagon Train Massacre and the Second Battle of Adobe Walls, where he played a prominent role. He surrendered in 1875 and was imprisoned at Fort Marion, returning to Indian Territory three years later, where he remained until his death in 1892.