Stuhr Museum News
By Karen M. Keehr, Curator of Research
Stur Museum of the Prarie Pioneer, Grand Island, Nebraska
At the encouragement of his father, Charles W. Jackson began a journal in 1867 as a way to improve his writing and get a better paying job. Jackson lived the typical life of a youn...
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Various owners (dispersed). Collected in 1882 at Darlington, Indian Territory (Oklahoma) by Sallie C. Maffet.
Descendants of Maffet sold the manuscript at Sotheby's auction in New York in 1997.
Purchased at auction and offered to the public by Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe NM.
Bad Eye, Tan-na-ti (Bird Chief) led a Kiowa raid on November 21, 1873, on the North Fork of the Canadian River below Camp Supply and near Cottonwood Grove, Indian Territory (later Oklahoma). Six of the war party were sent to Fort Marion in 1875: Bad Eye, Bear in the Clouds, Wohaw, Woman's Heart, Do...
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Various owners (dispersed); Donald Ellis Gallery; Bonham's, "From the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande: the Collection of Roy Robinson, Los Angeles, October 26-27, 2023, Lot 22; Roy Robinson Collection (1882-1970), acquired from the estate of Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipplee in 1933; Evangeline Marrs...
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Various owners (dispersed); Donald Ellis Gallery; Bonham's, "From the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande: the Collection of Roy Robinson, Los Angeles, October 26-27, 2023, Lot 22; Roy Robinson Collection (1882-1970), acquired from the estate of Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipplee in 1933; Evangeline Marrs...
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Frontier Army Museum, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, donated July 21, 1966. Catalog lists as "Album of drawing by Cheyenne Indians. Made for Capt. B. M. Custer" after caption on drawing: "Drawn by Cheyenne Indians 1881 for Capt. B.M. Custer U.S.A."
Sold at auction, Sotheby's, Fine American Indian Art, New York, October 21, 1994, lot 174, property of Bessie C. Irvin Trust.
Collected by William Edward Caton, Indian Trader at the Cheyenne Agency in Dakota, and bound in 1881. 76 pages.
Statement bound into ledger book:
Bound volume of INDIAN P...
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Drawings principally by Black Horse, c. 1879-1885, depicting Northern Cheyenne events beginning around 1865. Likely acquired through the post trader at Fort Keogh, Montana. Carl Denzel Collection. Purchased by Plains Ledger Art Digital Publishing Project (PILA), Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San ...
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Private owner. Provenance provided by 3rd generation descendants of Charles A. Wilkins on a typed note taped to the inside front cover:
"The attached book is a book given to George Wilkins' father Charles A. Wilkins, by Chief Sitting Bull, while said Chief was a prisoner under C. A. Wilkins' ter...
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Various owners (dispersed); Donald Ellis Gallery; Josie Bedia, Sotheby's, New York, December 4, 1997, Sale 7066, Lot 447; Collected at the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, Darlington, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, in 1882.
Donald Ellis Gallery Ltd.; Private Collection; Sotheby's Arts of the American West, New York, May 22, 2013; Edward and Dillie Thomas, The Giberson Family, Louis and Sarah Giberson; Ambrose Asher; gift from Cheyenne Bowstring Society chief, perhaps Lame Bull.
Dog Soldier Ledger Book Collection (MSS #722), Colorado Historical Society, Denver, Colorado.
Ira W. LaMunyon, donated on November 30, 1903.
Previously known as the Summit Spring Sketchbook. Sketchbook captured by an American soldier during the 1869 Battle of Summit Springs, near Sterling, Color...
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David Dunham, the prior owner's name, appears on the front and rear of this "Ornamental Penman's, Engravers, Sign Writers and Stonecutter's Pocket Book of Alphabets". Purchased in Pueblo, Colorado by Private Owner; purchased in 2012 by Plains Ledger Art Digital Publishing Project (PILA), Mandeville ...
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The album is signed on the front flyleaf: "Etahdleuh Doanmoe (Kiowa) Carlisle U. S. Barracks. Penn." From the collection of James S. Clark, purchased in 2016 from Coulter-Brooks Art & Antiques with funds from the Walter McClintock Fund.