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1. The prairie hunter : "one rubbed out"
- Creator:
- Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam, 181901905, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1852]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +136
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Print shows four Native American men on horseback chasing a trapper through tall grass, from left to right; one of the Native American men is falling off his horse; the trapper is looking back at them, and he appears to have just shot the falling Native American; more than half the image is sky
- Alternative Title:
- One rubbed out
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Signature in reverse on print in lower right: O. Knirsch 1852., and Text below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852 by N. Currier, in the clerk's office in the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y.
- Publisher:
- N. Currier
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Plains and West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America and First contact with Europeans
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The prairie hunter : "one rubbed out"
2. A check : keep your distance!
- Creator:
- Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam, 1819-1905, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1853]
- Call Number:
- WA Prints +134
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Reproduction of 1852 painting by A.F. Tait that depicts two trappers, men of European descent, and four Native American men fighting on horseback on a plain with tall grass; one of the trappers in center foreground wears a buckskin fringed jacket, aims his rifle; the other trapper driving the pack animals away from the scene. The first trapper is shown with a percussion cap and ball rifle, steer powder horn, and an arrow lodged into his camp blanket. Native American men to right in middle ground are armed with bows and arrows. Top half of image is sky
- Alternative Title:
- Keep your distance
- Description:
- Below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1853, by N. Currier, in the Clerk’s Office of the District-Court of the Southern District of N.Y. and Title from caption below image.
- Publisher:
- Published by N. Currier
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America and Wars
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A check : keep your distance!
3. Skinning the buffalo
- Creator:
- Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1854]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Reproduction of a drawing by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground two Native Americans, on foot with saddled horses nearby, skinning a buffalo. In the background, the scene is of the riverine plains and distant hill tops. The upper half of the image is of sky
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 13.
- Publisher:
- Lippincott, Grambo & Company
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- American bison hunting and Indians of North America
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Skinning the buffalo
4. Fort Defiance at Cañoncito Bonito, New Mexico: built in 1851-52
- Creator:
- Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1854]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Reproduction of a work by Seth Eastman from a sketch by J. H. Eaton. Depicts Fort Defiance as built in 1851-1852. In the foreground, Native Americans approach the fort in a line on horseback; within the fort, U.S. Army soldiers drill. The fort is at the foot of an escarpment. One-third of the image is of sky
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 29.
- Publisher:
- Lippincott, Grambo & Company
- Subject (Geographic):
- Fort Defiance (Ariz.) and West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Fort Defiance at Cañoncito Bonito, New Mexico: built in 1851-52
5. Buffalo chase
- Creator:
- Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1854]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Reproduction of a painting by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground two Native Americans on horseback, one with a long gun, the other with bow and arrow, hunting buffalo. In the background, the scene is of the riverine plains. The upper three-quarters of the image are of sky
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 9.
- Publisher:
- Lippincott, Grambo & Company
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- American bison hunting and Indians of North America
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Buffalo chase
6. Hunting the buffalo in winter
- Creator:
- Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1854]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Reproduction of an oil painting by Seth Eastman that depicts two Native Americans on snowshoes hunting buffalo in a winter scene
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Below image, centered: Pl. 10.
- Publisher:
- Lippincott, Grambo & Company
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- American bison hunting and Indians of North America
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hunting the buffalo in winter
7. Hunter dismounted
- Creator:
- Eastman, Seth, 1808-1875, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1854]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Reproduction of a drawning by Seth Eastman that depicts in the foreground a European American on foot hunting buffalo with a long gun. The scene is of the rolling, grassy plains with bison in the distance. The upper two-thirds of the image are of sky
- Description:
- Title from caption below image.
- Publisher:
- Published by Lippincott, Grambo & Co.
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- American bison hunting
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Hunter dismounted
8. Western life : the trapper
- Creator:
- Deas, Charles, 1818-1867, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1855]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- Abstract:
- Print reproduces Charles Deas's 1844 oil painting, "Long Jakes, the Rocky Mountain Man." Print depicts a bearded male trapper on horseback; horse, black with white blaze on forehead, facing right, head turned down and toward viewer; trapper's body facing right, half-turned to center, with head turned back to left; wearing a red tunic, buskskins, moccasins, spurs, and hat; carrying long gun in his right hand, reins in his left; mountains and sky in background
- Alternative Title:
- Long Jakes, the Rocky Mountain Man
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Date from metadata for another instance (black and white) of this print held by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas.
- Publisher:
- published by M. Knoedler, successor to Goupil & Co. and printed at J.H. Bufford's
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.)
- Subject (Topic):
- Trappers and Hunters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Western life : the trapper
9. The pursuit
- Creator:
- Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, lithographer
- Published / Created:
- [1856]
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait in a lithograph by Louis Maurer for Currier & Ives; it depicts trappers pursuing in combat Indigenous persons on horseback. In the foreground, one pair of riders; a trapper, on saddled roan mount, wearing hat and animal-skin clothing, aiming a pistol with his right hand; an Indigenous person, bareback on black horse, leaning to left side of mount, looking back, holding a spear in his right hand; in the mid-ground, more riders in thel tall grass; in the background, largely cloudy sky with a single bird in flight; a little less than half the print shows the sky
- Description:
- Title from printed caption below image. and Below image: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by N. Currier, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern Distt. of N.Y.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Currier & Ives
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.) and Great Plains
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, and Frontier and pioneer life
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The pursuit
10. The last war-whoop
- Creator:
- Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, lithographer
- Published / Created:
- [c1856]
- Call Number:
- BrSides Zc10 856mc
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Print reproduces a painting by A.F. Tait that depicts a trapper on horseback holding a long gun, looking down at a Indigenous man who has been shot and unhorsed from his mount. The fallen man props himself up with one hand and raises his right hand to his mouth as he shouts. He wears a leather shirt, leggings and beaded moccasins. He is leaning on his bow and his shield. There is a spear on the ground in front of him. Other white men are in the background to the right looking back at others (Indigenous persons?) who are in the far distance further to the right
- Description:
- BEIN BrSides Zc10 856mc: On sheet 52 x 73 cm., Title from caption below image., After a painting by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait that is the companian piece to "The pursuit.", and Copyright 1856 by N. Currier.
- Publisher:
- Published by N. Currier, 152 Nassau Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- West (U.S.) and Great Plains
- Subject (Topic):
- Indians of North America, Violence against, Trappers, Frontier and pioneer life, and Wars
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The last war-whoop