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Lot 366
Sale 6425 - American Historical Ephemera and Early Photography, including The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
Part I - Lots 1-222
Oct 23, 2025
10:00AM ET
Part II - Lots 223-376
Oct 24, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Lot Description
GRABILL, John C.H. (1849-1903), photographer. Photograph of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody with war correspondents and US Cavalry officers at Pine Ridge, 1891.
9 3/8 x 12 5/8 in. photograph on cardstock mount, copyrighted in the negative by the Grabill P & V Co., Deadwood, SD. Mount with Grabill's Portrait and View Company imprint.
Taken in the middle of January 1891, this photograph captures Buffalo Bill posing on horseback at center, surrounded by several national and international war correspondents at Pine Ridge. Subjects include US Army Scout Frank Grouard, Lieutenant Charles W. Taylor, 9th Cavalry and commander of A Troop, US Indian Scouts, Major John Burke, manager of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, and Albert Burkholder of the New York Herald, his face circled in black ink.
A rare photograph illustrated in The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, by Don Russell (after p. 406).
Provenance: Brian Lebel's Old West Show and Auction, 23 June 2012, Lot 129.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.